Absolutely not, there are a few streets in Berlin and in NRW where you can see this but rarely. It’s a big city thing
I believe this photo was taken in Frankfurt in the “Bahnhofsviertel” a neighbourhood that is notorious for its social problems and dirty public spaces.
Big cities in Germany like Frankfurt or Berlin certainly have these neighbourhoods but they are not really representative of Germany as a whole
Not at all. The only times I’ve seen streets this dirty is after like street parties or something like that.
Not like in this picture.
Some streets are littered, but it’s mostly in bigger cities and not that extreme.
The most streets are clean, in my Opinion, even cleaner as in some neighbors-countries
Ask your self why that picture is cropped that way.
If im not mistaken, this is Münchener Straße in Frankfurt, not far from central station. While not a part of the city thats remotely posh, it doesnt look like a total dump there either.
This is several hundred times worse than the worst I’ve ever seen in Germany.
Also, unless I’m misrembering, this exact issue was used to sow similar misinformation years ago, so it needing to be dug back up now should tell you something about wheter this happens regularly.
Holy crap what’s going on in the comment section of the original post. Do people there really believe this is a common thing here?
And no, it’s not common. Personally I’ve never seen anything like this before, and I lived in and around Cologne for years.
It seems people over there in the /r/poland sub have some issues they need to work through, and apparently this makes them feel better.
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Idk all of Germany. But I did spend two weeks there. As an American I was shocked by how clean things were, especially in the cities. Our cities can get pretty trashy.
It depends greatly on the region.
Cologne, Bonn and many other cities in NRW are very littered. Although of course not as extreme as in the photo, in Cologne many people / creatures seem to drop all kinds of waste on the streets, don’t empty their shopping carts, etc. Streets without litter are rare in Cologne.
On the other hand, based on my experience, the eastern states (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony) and Bavaria are very clean, waste generally ends up where it belongs. Nuremberg might be the cleanest large city in Europe that I have visited (it was about 10 years ago, now it might be perhaps worse).
And even the dirty Cologne is not nearly as dirty as Brussels, that is a different level.
Cleanest street in Berlin
Actually if you see something like this call your city administration. They will clear everything up. This is mainly to protect the environment if people just throw things with hazards like refrigerators and so on into nature.
Mönchengladbach Rheydt and some parts of Duisburg are bad. But still never seen anything like this.
The streets are only as trashy as the people living there. (this includes guests of bars, restaurants etc as well as businesses )
Was zum….. Why is it that Deutschland ist better than Poland?
Honestly I lived in the shittiest part of Berlin and I’ve never seen anything close to that
I currently live in Berlin and can confirm that this is a very common occurrence. I can walk 200 meters in any direction at any given time and find mattresses, appliances, broken furniture, etc. It’s Sperrmüll city here. There are cleaner areas of Berlin, but i think it’s important not to brush over this. It’s a serious problem in some areas and it’s sadly normalized.
Yes it is common. at least from my experience. well maybe not on that level but enough to find it really disgusting.
Not like that, no.
Das ist die Münchner Straße in Frankfurt. Schön da
This honestly looks like there was a storm before the Sperrmüll could be picked up.
Never seen something like that here in Bavaria (south Germany)
Hahaha, Uno!
thats 100% not germany
Even after big festivals that take place in the city streets, the morning afterwards, the streets will be clean again
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Absolutely not, there are a few streets in Berlin and in NRW where you can see this but rarely. It’s a big city thing
I believe this photo was taken in Frankfurt in the “Bahnhofsviertel” a neighbourhood that is notorious for its social problems and dirty public spaces.
Big cities in Germany like Frankfurt or Berlin certainly have these neighbourhoods but they are not really representative of Germany as a whole
Not at all. The only times I’ve seen streets this dirty is after like street parties or something like that.
Not like in this picture.
Some streets are littered, but it’s mostly in bigger cities and not that extreme.
The most streets are clean, in my Opinion, even cleaner as in some neighbors-countries
Ask your self why that picture is cropped that way.
If im not mistaken, this is Münchener Straße in Frankfurt, not far from central station. While not a part of the city thats remotely posh, it doesnt look like a total dump there either.
This is several hundred times worse than the worst I’ve ever seen in Germany.
Also, unless I’m misrembering, this exact issue was used to sow similar misinformation years ago, so it needing to be dug back up now should tell you something about wheter this happens regularly.
Holy crap what’s going on in the comment section of the original post. Do people there really believe this is a common thing here?
This street normally looks like this:
https://imgur.com/a/BDwYQ9n
That looks like the aftermath of a failed Sperrmüll pickup, like it’s described [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/sh43eu/sperrmüll_a_rant/).
And no, it’s not common. Personally I’ve never seen anything like this before, and I lived in and around Cologne for years.
It seems people over there in the /r/poland sub have some issues they need to work through, and apparently this makes them feel better.
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Idk all of Germany. But I did spend two weeks there. As an American I was shocked by how clean things were, especially in the cities. Our cities can get pretty trashy.
It depends greatly on the region.
Cologne, Bonn and many other cities in NRW are very littered. Although of course not as extreme as in the photo, in Cologne many people / creatures seem to drop all kinds of waste on the streets, don’t empty their shopping carts, etc. Streets without litter are rare in Cologne.
On the other hand, based on my experience, the eastern states (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony) and Bavaria are very clean, waste generally ends up where it belongs. Nuremberg might be the cleanest large city in Europe that I have visited (it was about 10 years ago, now it might be perhaps worse).
And even the dirty Cologne is not nearly as dirty as Brussels, that is a different level.
Cleanest street in Berlin
Actually if you see something like this call your city administration. They will clear everything up. This is mainly to protect the environment if people just throw things with hazards like refrigerators and so on into nature.
Mönchengladbach Rheydt and some parts of Duisburg are bad. But still never seen anything like this.
The streets are only as trashy as the people living there. (this includes guests of bars, restaurants etc as well as businesses )
Was zum….. Why is it that Deutschland ist better than Poland?
Honestly I lived in the shittiest part of Berlin and I’ve never seen anything close to that
I currently live in Berlin and can confirm that this is a very common occurrence. I can walk 200 meters in any direction at any given time and find mattresses, appliances, broken furniture, etc. It’s Sperrmüll city here. There are cleaner areas of Berlin, but i think it’s important not to brush over this. It’s a serious problem in some areas and it’s sadly normalized.
Yes it is common. at least from my experience. well maybe not on that level but enough to find it really disgusting.
Not like that, no.
Das ist die Münchner Straße in Frankfurt. Schön da
This honestly looks like there was a storm before the Sperrmüll could be picked up.
Never seen something like that here in Bavaria (south Germany)
Hahaha, Uno!
thats 100% not germany
Even after big festivals that take place in the city streets, the morning afterwards, the streets will be clean again