‘Strausberg Stadt’ means ‘Strausberg Town’.
The halt opened with the branch line to Strausberg Nord on 1 January 1955, about seven kilometres from Strausberg station, which lies several kilometres south of the town centre. The town’s name probably comes from the lake ‘Struz’, perhaps from a Slavic word for bean or pod; the German inhabitants reinterpreted it as ‘strus’, Middle High German for ostrich.