Under Noise People in the Treptow-Köpenick district especially suffer from party boats and rafts on the Berlin Spree in summer. In other districts on the riverbank, the party’s noise on the water is limited, this can be seen from the answers of the districts and the Senate to the CDU’s request for balance in the last two years.
In Treptow-Köpenick, the public order office regularly receives “noise complaints about party rafts and commercial vessels with permanently installed sound systems” during the summer, he said. “Noise pollution in the waters of Berlin and its surroundings has increased in recent years.”
28 fined between 350 and 4,500 euros
In 2024 and 2025, 37 reports from the private sector and the police will be processed. In 28 cases, there were fines of between 350 and 4,500 euros. The Tiergarten district court closed seven trials.
In early 2021, a survey of the water situation there showed that 90 percent of those surveyed complained of increased noise and recklessness caused by recreational boats, party rafts and ships. The district then launched a long-term “You are not alone on the water” admissions campaign, which it will continue.
In Mitte, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Lichtenberg, where party boats also travel in summer, each only registers a maximum of five advertisements. Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg discovery Fine inappropriate when it comes to noise pollution from water: “a repressive approach within the framework of good sanctions is not yet the right choice of action”.
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