Named after Marzahn, the district whose name means a settlement by a swamp.
The pedestrian promenade between Eastgate and the Freizeitforum Marzahn was laid out as a ‘social centre’ with shops and places to eat, and named in 1983. Long empty after 1990, it has come back to life since about 2005. Marzahn comes from the Slavic ‘marcana’ (Polabian for ‘swamp’).