Wedding Station

Depending on your native language, the Wedding station in Berlin can be confusing. While not an obvious destination for nuptials, Germans have a reputation for being direct, and Berlin for being edgy and alternative—so perhaps the vibrant orange tiling that greets locals on their commute is romantic?

Alas, no. Wedding station has nothing to do with tying any knots other than the loose one on your shoe as you run for your train. Instead, this locality in Berlin was named after the twelfth-century nobleman Rudolf de Weddinghe and today is part of the Berlin Ringbahn, a circular train swirling around the city’s central districts.

The Wedding S-Bahn station opened on May 1, 1872, though the construction of the Berlin Wall rendered the station out of use for many years. After the Wall came down, the last station on the line to be reopened, on June 16, 2002, was Wedding. This date is fondly referred to as Wedding Day, based on its marriage of meanings for the many Englishspeaking Germans.

The station continues to serve daily passengers, along with a few newlyweds who venture inside for a celebratory, inescapably on-the-nose photo shoot.

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