Named after Senefelderplatz, which honours Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
Alois Senefelder (1771–1834) invented lithography, printing from stone. Printers and lithographers from all over Germany paid for a marble monument here, unveiled on his 121st birthday, 6 November 1892; on its base two putti write and read his name in mirror writing. Four years later the square, until then Thusnelda-Platz, was renamed after him.