Christmas lights in Berlin
Ku’damm shines again – everywhere else is still dark
November 12, 2025 – 10:08Reading time: 2 minutes
Good news: The trees will be lit up again along the Ku’damm route this year. But elsewhere it was still dark.
There will also be Christmas street lighting in the West City of Berlin this year. As Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) reports, financing has been secured for the entire 4.5-kilometer route from Wittenbergplatz to Rathenauplatz in Halensee.
AG City CEO Uwe Timm told RBB “Abendschau” on Tuesday: “We are doing well and will be able to decorate the entire Kurfürstendamm and Tauentzienstrasse.” At the end of October, AG City had announced that enough donations had been collected to light up the section between Wittenbergplatz and Schaubühne.
Christmas lights in City West ran into funding problems last year after the Berlin Senate withdrew its support. The Senate recently supported lighting in 2023 with funding of 100,000 euros. Since then, AG City, the lighting organizer, has relied on donations.
However, there will be no Christmas lights on Unter den Linden boulevard this year. The Berlin-Mitte district office informed RBB that funding had been rejected due to high costs and high personnel costs. Private fundraising campaigns were unable to raise the necessary funds. Last year there was no light there.
