Named after the old core of Moabit and the town of Rathenow.
The name Moabit is traced back to Huguenot refugees, who are said to have called their new home ‘terre de Moab’, after the biblical land of Moab, where Elimelech found refuge. The street Alt-Moabit has had its name since 1875. Rathenower Straße, also named in 1875, recalls Rathenow, a district town in Brandenburg.