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People and Politics | Kindergarten Noise Pollution - Ever More Neighbors Bring Court Cases

1,722 views · Published 28 November 2008 · 5:05 · Indexed 16 October 2026

Channel: DW News · 2008 · Entertainment

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After a four-year long battle, the Milchzahn Kindergarten in the Berlin neighborhood of Friedenau is closing. A nearby resident had brought a case to court over noise pollution - and won. But the Milchzahn story is no isolated incident. Ever more kindergartens are having to shut up shop due to this type of complaint. But Germany needs children. That's why the federal government moved to increase day-care and kindergarten places threefold by the year 2013. This initiative could be difficult to achieve if kindergartens are increasingly seen as a public nuisance.

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