page_title: Moabit
section_title: Post-war and modern days
hierarchical_section_title: Moabit / History / Post-war and modern days
caption_attribution_description: English: Market hall in Moabit in Berlin-Mitte, GermanyDeutsch: Markthalle (Arminiushalle, westl. der Jonasstr., Moabit; dahinter „Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin“ im Rathaus Tiergarten) in Berlin-Mitte, Deutschland
context_page_description: Moabit is an inner city locality in the borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany. As of 2016, around 77,000 people lived in Moabit. First inhabited in 1685 and incorporated into Berlin in 1861, the former industrial and working-class neighbourhood is fully surrounded by three watercourses which define its present-day border. Between 1945 and 1990, Moabit was part of the British sector of West Berlin that directly bordered East Berlin.
  Colloquially, the name Moabit also refers to the Central Criminal Court and detention centre, which deals with all criminal cases in Berlin and is based in Moabit.
context_section_description: After the war, between 1945 and 1990, Moabit was part of the British sector of West Berlin. Due to its new peripheral location adjacent to the Berlin Wall, Moabit became a remote neighbourhood. Similar to Kreuzberg, it attracted mostly immigrants due to its low rents. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, Moabit's location has anew changed to its former centrality. Post-reunification, Moabit has faced problems such as drug trafficking and abuse (especially around Kleiner Tiergarten), poverty (most notably in its Western parts), and crime. Similar to neighbouring Wedding, lower rents have recently attracted artists and young people, and there are first unmistakable signs of gentrification.
  At its eastern edge, bordering Mitte, Moabit's neoclassical train station now serves as Berlin's contemporary art museum, the Museum für Gegenwart.
  The Center for Art and Urbanism (ZK/U) is located on the grounds of the Stadtgarten Moabit, in the former Berlin-Moabit freight station.
caption: Moabit's Markthalle X, one of the few remaining market halls in Berlin, was erected in 1891.
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