Overview
- Police confirmed a new collapse on Argentinische Allee in Zehlendorf in front of Krankenhaus Waldfriede with no injuries reported.
- Responders freed the clinic’s light sweeper after it sank into cobblestones, and the area was cordoned off.
- The city’s sanitation service said the affected sweepers were recovered and noted the machines have a 3.5‑ton limit with axle‑load indicators to prevent overloading.
- The civil engineering office ordered additional digging at the Schloßstraße crater to determine the full damage and cause before closing the site.
- Water utility checks, including camera inspections, found no faults in nearby pipes or sewers at the Zehlendorf site, while experts point to frost–thaw cycles and insufficient soil compaction as likely drivers of hidden voids; the Mitte incident also damaged a building’s sewer line.