‘Onkel Toms Hütte’ means ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’, after an old inn.
The name goes back to a forest inn, demolished in 1978. According to tradition, its landlord, Thomas, put up huts in his beer garden, and since Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ (1852) was on everyone’s lips, the place became ‘Onkel Toms Hütte’, a name later given to the housing estate and to this station of 1929. A basketball player’s attempt to have it renamed, because he saw ‘Uncle Tom’ as an insult to Black people, failed.