Named after the ‘Avenue of the Cosmonauts’ and the River Rhin.
The Allee der Kosmonauten, first called Springpfuhlstraße, was renamed on 22 September 1978 to honour the Soyuz 31 flight of Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space. Rhinstraße, named in 1912, recalls the Rhin, a 129-km tributary of the Havel; its name is widely thought to come from 12th-century settlers from the Lower Rhine.