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) Location of Wedding in Berlin HistoryIn 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. 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. 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 protests on May 1, 1929. Because of the politics of the workers in Wedding, it was a target of attacks by the Nazi government in the 1930s. After World War II, Wedding and Reinickendorf together made up the French sector of Berlin. The north side of Wedding's Bernauer Straße and both northern and southern sidewalks were in the French sector while the buildings along the southern side were in Soviet territory. When the Berlin Wall was being built in August 1961, many who lived in apartments in these buildings frantically jumped from their windows to the sidewalk below, before the buildings could be evacuated and their windows bricked up. Wedding was the western terminus of one of the first refugee tunnels dug underneath the Berlin Wall. It extended from the basement of an abandoned factory on Schönholzer Straße in the Soviet sector underneath Bernauer Straße to another building in the west. Though marvellously well constructed and its secrecy maintained, the tunnel was plagued by water from leaking pipes, and had to be shut down after only a few days of operation. A section of the Berlin Wall has been reconstructed near the spot on Bernauer Straße where the tunnel ended. Two sections of wall run parallel to one another down the street with a strip of no man's land in the middle. A nearby museum documents the history of the Wall. Wedding today) Wedding U-Bahn station More than other 19th century working class districts, the original character of Wedding has been preserved. It is said to be a place to find the Schnauze mit Herz (big mouth and big heart) of the working class. However, the spirit is not exclusively German. The multicultural atmosphere is visible in the bilingual shop signs (German and Turkish, or German and Arabic). The buildings of Wedding are relics of European post-war Modernism. Many are monolithic housing blocks. Some old buildings survived the war and urban renewal and still have coal fired heating. Wedding did not experience the boom and gentrification of the '90s in Berlin. Two green oases mark the borders of the old "red" district. The first is the vast Humboldthain park in the East and the idyllic Plötzensee lake in the Southwest. Volkspark Humboldthain has a rise in the south and one in the north with a sort of valley in between. The main activity is walking. There are picnic grounds and a big outdoor public swimming pool. There are also the remains of a large World War II bunker on the northern edge. After unsuccessful attempts to demolish the behemoth structure, the city decided to turn it into a lookout point. It provides an impressive view, especially to the north. Local technical mountain climbers have converted the northern face of the bunker to a practice climbing wall. Plötzensee is a popular summer hang-out offering lovely sandy beaches and long lawns to relax on. A section of the beach is reserved for nudists. This article incorporates text translated from as of 3 February 2005.
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