Named after the Rathaus Neukölln, town hall of a town called Rixdorf until 1912.
The town hall on Karl-Marx-Straße was designed by Reinhold Kiehl; its 68-metre tower carries a copper statue of Fortuna, goddess of luck. Rixdorf became a town in 1899 and was renamed Neukölln on 27 January 1912, with the Kaiser's consent, because ‘Rixdorf’ had become a byword for frivolous entertainment – as the popular song ‘In Rixdorf ist Musike’ shows.