Wedding (Berlin)
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Junction of See- and Müllerstraße with Alhambra cinema
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Location of Wedding in Mitte district and Berlin
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| Coordinates: 52°33′00″N 13°22′00″E / 52.55000°N 13.36667°ECoordinates: 52°33′00″N 13°22′00″E / 52.55000°N 13.36667°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Berlin | |
| City | Berlin | |
| Borough | Mitte | |
| Founded | 1861 | |
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| • Total | 9.23 km2 (3.56 sq mi) | |
| Population (2009-06-30) | ||
| • Total | 76,363 | |
| • Density | 8,300/km2 (21,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | (nr. 0105) 13347, 13349, 13351, 13353, 13355, 13357, 13359, 13407 | |
| Vehicle registration | B | |
Wedding (German: der Wedding; pronounced [ˈvɛdɪŋ]) is a locality in the borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany and was a separate borough in the north-western inner city until it was fused with Tiergarten and Mitte in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform. At the same time the eastern half of the former borough of Wedding—on the other side of Reinickendorfer Straße—was separated as the new locality of Gesundbrunnen.~~
In the 12th century, the manor of the nobleman Rudolf de Weddinge was located on the small Panke River in the immediate vicinity of today's Nettelbeckplatz. The farmstead, which burned down more than once, remained abandoned in the forest until the 18th century. In the mid-18th century, while Gesundbrunnen was being built up as a health resort and spa town, gambling and prostitution moved into Wedding, transforming it into a pleasure district. In 1864, Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering established the Schering pharmaceutical company on Müllerstraße; the company has been a part of Bayer since 2006. A large hospital at the western rim of the locality was built between 1898 and 1906 on the initiative of Rudolf Virchow. The Rotaprint plant was initiated in Wedding in 1904 and became one of the largest empoyers locally with about 1,000 staff at its height.
The constant migration of country-dwellers into the city at the end of the 19th century converted Wedding into a working-class district. The labourers lived in cramped tenement blocks, many in the Wilhelmine Ring. After World War I, Wedding was known as "Red Wedding" as it was renowned for its militant, largely Communist working class; it was the scene of violent clashes between Communist and Nazi sympathizers in the late 1920s.
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