Named after Nauener Platz, which honours the Brandenburg town of Nauen.
The square received its name on 1 June 1910, after Nauen in the Havelland, nicknamed the ‘Funkstadt’ (radio town) for its early radio pioneering. Nauen’s name probably comes from the Slavic ‘nowo’, meaning ‘new’ or ‘new place’. The station, opened in 1976, is decorated in red, white and blue, the colours of France, as it then lay in the French sector.