Named after Ferdinand Sickenberg, an industrialist in Nußdorf.
Ferdinand Sickenberg (1810–1885) was an industrialist who founded a dye works in Nußdorf. The lane was named after him on 18 July 1894; from 1873 it had been Donaustraße, and originally Fabriksgasse and Kirchengasse (‘factory lane’ and ‘church lane’).