Munich rules over Berlin

The new issue of the Berlin phone book has a picture of the Munich Rathaus on it instead of the Berlin Rotes Rathaus. Apparently someone mixed up the photos at the publishers TVG Verlag in Frankfurt, they mixed up the "platz" that the buildings are on. Munichs is on Marienplatz and Berlins is on Alexanderplatz, not very similar really. Unfortunately the error wasn't noticed until they had printed 700,000 copies, so Berlin is stuck with them until next year, when they get a chance to mess it up again.

Just for reference this is Munichs Rathaus:


This is Berlins:


Link to report on Antenne Bayern.

There are no coincidences. Wait until djgrazy hears about this one.

Berlin has a few Rathäuser, that's the Rotes Rathaus Berlin-Mitte, a pun on the bricks and the fact that Mitte was generally a Labor stronghold before WW II. This is one of the few instances where the unified government went East instead of retaining the Western residence in Rathaus Schöneberg.

DW World article on the same topic.

What Saupreiß wrote that DW article?

If the photos were mixed up, does that mean the Berliners will be taking covert revenge with the Munich phone book?

That aside, people still use phone books?

As Allershausen correctly pointed out, the second picture in post #1 is of the Berlin Rotes Rathaus which is the current seat of the Berlin federal government and is located on Alexanderplatz in the local governmental Bezirk of Mitte.

The local governmental Bezirk of Mitte, on the other hand, is comprised of 3 Rathäuser - Rathaus Tiergarten, Rathaus Wedding and Rathaus Mitte

Readers from the greater Munich region may be suprised to find out (as noted by their attempts to provide Berliner residents with information on registration etc) that none of the Rathäuser are called 'the KVR'

Hope that helps?


Are you talking about the federal government or the local government here? Not really following that I'm afraid. What are the instances of 'unified government' staying in the West?

This kind of reminds me of Chicago, where a statue of Lincoln got delivered to Grant Park, and a statue of Grant got delivered to Lincoln Park. And they never bothered to move them.

At least they can recycle these in the near future.

Considering the current governing body of Berlin and the do-nothing, corrupt fat cats, I am not surprised this "slipped past"...however, it falls on Deutsche Telekom, not idiot mayor Klaus Wowereit, not like he has noticed.