This is where you should go if you want to get to know an up-and-coming neighbourhood and search for hidden gems among the high-rise buildings.
Wedding is a great place if you are looking for a raw, up-and-coming neighbourhood. Before the war, Wedding was just as much a working-class neighbourhood as Prenzlauer Berg. But after the city was divided, the workers' houses here in West Berlin had to make way for cheap high-rise buildings to cope with the housing shortage, due to the lack of space caused by the Wall. For a long time, Wedding was a neighbourhood you'd rather not go to, but nowadays it's really on the up. Artists and students are moving into the neighbourhood because of the low rents, and with them come pop-up restaurants, coffee shops and experimental art initiatives. Every day there's more to do in the neighbourhood.
