Rathaus Schöneberg is the city hall that in charge of the Schöneberg district. When it comes to…read morecivil services like identification, marriage registration and others, people will need to come here for that. The city hall building might look quite simple outside, but it has rich history. Former U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was here, as he was making his speech back then. Inside the city hall, there is Paternoster lift which still working. If you have the chance, give it try and snap some pictures for memories, but be careful with it. It also holds a flea market at the weekend in front of the buidling and a gorgeous park next to, to have a walk.

The Schoeneberg City Hall is famous for the being the place where JFK delivered his "Ich bin ein…read moreBerliner" speech in 1963. It also contains the Freiheitsglocke - the Freedom Bell, a gift from the American government - which is rung everyday at noon. The City Hall also has an exhibition called "Wir waren Nachbarn - Biografien juedischer Zeitzeugen" (in English: We Were Neighbors Once - Biographies of Jews in Schoeneberg and Tempelhof under the Nazi Regime), which contains biographies of Jews from the Schoeneberg and Tempelhof neighborhoods of Berlin. [The biographies were in German - only a few had short English translations contained within.] An interesting place to explore if you're in the Schoeneberg area.

Punkt 6:30 da, unnötigerweise mit Buch unter'm Arm. War ganz alleine da. Ich wäre sicherlich in 15…read moremin. wieder raus, hätte ich das online Formular nicht übersehen. (Unbedingt in Voraus ausfüllen !) Durchaus nette, hilfreiche Beamten. Achtung: ab den 1.4. neue Öffnungszeiten ! Erst ab 8-20:00

No one wants to go to the Zollamt. And I am kind of annoyed they made me pay 40€ on my ukulele…read more(which I had received as a birthday gift from my parents and owned for years) that my dad shipped me from California... but all in all, it's not a terrible place. The wait times have never been too long when I've gone (although bringing a book and/or companion can help) and the people are just trying to do their jobs. Plus, the guy who runs the front desk sometimes was wearing sweet green pants when I was there. I can get behind that. Plus, they waived my "storage fee" on my last package, which was a care package. I think they were hoping that I was smuggling in shoes or something (my friend mailed it in a shoebox) but whatever. I just wish it weren't so far away