Overview

• Residents reported widespread urination in their historic building entrances and damage to the green median strip after this year’s Karneval der Kulturen relocated to Karl-Marx-Allee.
• Officials say protective measures, including mesh barriers around the rose garden and fenced-off tree groups, limited harm to most of the 15,000-square-metre green space.
• Despite an estimated 750,000 attendees, authorities recorded only 38 citations for public urination.
• Planning documents indicate the district will triple the number of mobile toilets for next year’s event and the organizer will bear all repair and improvement costs.
• Residents are calling for permanent bollards to prevent wild urination in front of entrances and for quicker removal of security bollards from side streets.