TODAY IN BERLIN: DOG DAYS

March 23

Mar 23, 2025

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On this day in 1830 Berlin’s Magistrat - the city council - announced new regulations for the levying of the Hundesteuer (dog tax). First introduced in 1810, it covered all small and slightly larger animals kept for one’s plaisir, such as cats, birds, dogs and horses.

Fruit seller with her dog-pulled cart in Unter den Linden before the university building. Postcard mailed around 1908.

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