Named after the Plänterwald, a forest managed as a ‘Plenterwald’.
In forestry, a Plenterwald (or Plänterwald) is a wood where trees of different ages grow side by side and are felled one by one at different times. The 89-hectare forest gave its name to the neighbourhood around it. The halt opened under the name Plänterwald in 1956; a station called Dammweg had been planned here in 1937 but was never built.