Named after Zwickauer Damm, which honours the Saxon city of Zwickau.
The road (‘Damm’, literally ‘embankment’) was named after Zwickau, a city in Saxony, in keeping with the names of the surrounding streets. For more than 600 years coal was mined in and around Zwickau. The U-Bahn station opened on 2 January 1970, when the line was extended as far as Zwickauer Damm.