Named after the Volkspark Wuhlheide, a ‘people’s park’ in the Wuhlheide forest.
The Wuhlheide takes its name from the river Wuhle, which once formed the forest’s eastern edge; the name is Slavic, from *vol, ‘ox’. In the 1920s Treptow’s garden director Ernst Harrich turned part of the forest into a park with meadows, sports grounds and an open-air bath. Much of it was destroyed in the Second World War.