Wedding is a multicultural district encompassing several residential areas and parks. Huge Volkspark Rehberge and smaller Schillerpark attract picnicking families and runners. In the southwest, tiny Plötzensee lake offers a sandy beach for swimming against the backdrop of 19th-century Plötzensee Prison, now a memorial. Students and families fill cafes and casual restaurants in the lively Brüsseler Kiez area.
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"The district of Wedding, forever “up and coming” to the point where it’s now a bit of a joke (Der Wedding kommt), is located over the legendary Bösebrücke (where the Wall ran) from Prenzlauer Berg. The contrast is pronounced: Where the latter district is largely white, middle-aged, and middle class, Wedding was in West Berlin and, like Kreuzberg and Neukölln, became a settling location for Turkish families in the 1960s. It hasn’t gentrified much in the intervening years, and its influx of expats has been somewhat less intense than Neukölln, but it nonetheless offers some great bars and cafes. Check out the Flak Tower at Humboldthain Park and the former Nuclear Bunker at Gesundbrunnen if you’re interested in history." - MATADOR_NETWORK
