Named after Seestraße, the ‘lake street’ that runs past the Plötzensee.
Seestraße owes its name to the Plötzensee, a lake it passes on its southern side; the street already appears by name on a map of 1827. The lake itself is named after the Plötze, the roach, a fish of the carp family. The U-Bahn station at the corner of Müllerstraße opened in 1923.