The Wilhelmine Ring is the name for a belt of distinctive multi-occupancy rental housing blocks constructed in the second half of the 19th century around the historic city center of Berlin. It is characterized by a dense settlement pattern with four- to five-story residential buildings with side and rear wings around an inner courtyard. The designation reflects the period of origin of this town planning solution under the German monarchs Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II.
Typical Wilhelmine Ring building with shops on the ground floor and apartments in the upper storeys, from a postcard featuring Wedding around 1900
Sophie-Charlotten-Strasse 88, Berlin, 1892
Sequence of back wings with interconnected inner courtyards in a building at Kastanienallee 12, Berlin
Critique of inner courtyards in a drawing by Heinrich Zille (1858-1929) "Hey ma, gimmie the flow'r pots, y'know how Lizzy loves t' sit where it's green!"
Wedding is a locality in the borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany. It 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.
Augustenburger Platz with Campus Virchow Klinikum
Berlin-Wedding station on Müllerstraße
Wedding City Hall
Protestant old Nazareth Church (by Schinkel) on Leopoldplatz
