Rathaus Wedding, Town hall in Berlin-Mitte, Germany.
Rathaus Wedding is an administrative building in Berlin-Mitte with straight facades and minimal decorative details following New Objectivity design principles. The five-story brick structure shows typical features of 1920s modernism with generous windows and functional layout throughout.
Rathaus Wedding was built from 1928 to 1930 to plans by Friedrich Hellwig, after the 1920 creation of Groß-Berlin formed the district of Wedding, whose departments had been scattered across 25 locations. It was inaugurated on 18 November 1930, and until then the district assembly met at the Ledigenwohnheim in Schönstedtstraße 1. It is one of the few Berlin administrative buildings of the Weimar period in the New Objectivity tradition.
The building's name appears only as the lettering 'RATHAUS WEDDING' above the Müllerstraße portal, since the facade was left without ornament apart from a small stone coat of arms at the street corner. Inside, the entrance hall carries yellow and green ceramic tiles and a floor mosaic of the Berlin coat of arms. Since March 2009 the Galerie Wedding has occupied part of the old building, showing exhibitions on migration and foreignness aimed at residents of Wedding.
The complex faces Müllerstraße at numbers 146/147, diagonally opposite the Alte Nazarethkirche. The slightly projecting main entrance on Müllerstraße opens into a low distribution hall tiled in yellow and green ceramics, with a mosaic of the Berlin coat of arms set into the floor. The rear courtyard holds the Walther Rathenau hall, and the 1966 high-rise with its glazed pavilion stands on the same forecourt.
The building has no tower, unlike Berlin's other town halls, because the district saved money: of the 2.2 million marks planned, only two million were needed, and mayor Carl Leid put the rest into a repair fund. Apart from a small stone coat of arms at the street corner, the only ornament is the lettering 'RATHAUS WEDDING' above the entrance.
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