List of streets in Oberhausen

The list of streets in Oberhausen lists all street names in the municipality of the independent city of Oberhausen in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia and provides an explanation of the origin of the name.

Overview of the list of streets

Oberhausen consists of 28 full-fledged districts (either because of their size or because of their historical independence). The detailed lists of the streets in the districts can be found here. Due to the heterogeneity of the south of Lirich, the list of Lirich streets is divided into two parts.

For several city districts, since the statistical districts do not coincide with the city districts, no information can be given regarding the number of inhabitants and / or the area of ​​the district.

district	List of streets	district	Number of streets and squares	of which only partially located in the district	Population in the district	District area (km²)	assigned districts
Alsfeld	List of streets in Oberhausen-Alsfeld	Sterkrade	70	9	12603	4.34	Dunkelschlag settlement , Sterkrader Heide
Alstaden on the Ruhr	List of streets in Alstaden	Alt-Oberhausen	110	4th	18051	3.85
Barmingholten	List of streets in Oberhausen-Barmingholten	Sterkrade	19th	3	3150	2.15	Dellerheide
Bermensfeld	List of streets in Oberhausen-Bermensfeld	Alt-Oberhausen	26th	7th	4772		Oberhausen-Frintrop
Biefang	List of streets in Oberhausen-Biefang	Sterkrade	25th	10	2800	1.29
Borbeck	List of streets in Oberhausen-Borbeck	Alt-Oberhausen	19th	3	8169
Buschhausen	List of streets in Oberhausen-Buschhausen	Sterkrade	63	8th	8533	4.81	Forest breakdown
Muffled	List of streets in Oberhausen-Dümpten	Alt-Oberhausen	46	11
Holten	List of streets in Oberhausen-Holten	Sterkrade	56	8th	5520	3.43	Forest pond
Downtown	List of streets in downtown Oberhausen	Alt-Oberhausen	46	7th
Klosterhardt	List of streets in Oberhausen-Klosterhardt	Osterfeld	34	5	5790		Jacobisiedlung
Knappenviertel	List of streets in Oberhausen-Knappenviertel	Alt-Oberhausen	21st	5			Bricktorviertel, Uhlandviertel
Königshardt	List of streets in Königshardt	Sterkrade	42	6th	7547	6.66	Kleekamp
Lirich	List of streets in Oberhausen-Lirich	Alt-Oberhausen	38	3	7174	4.08
Lirich -South	List of streets in Oberhausen-Lirich-Süd	Alt-Oberhausen	36	5	8206	1.51	City West, Alstadener Heide
Marienviertel	List of streets in Oberhausen-Marienviertel	Alt-Oberhausen	30th	10			Bismarckviertel, theater district
new middle	List of streets in Oberhausen-Neue Mitte	Alt-Oberhausen	27	6th			Grafenbusch settlement
Osterfeld Heath	List of streets in Oberhausen-Osterfeld-Heide	Osterfeld	53	8th	7790		Eisenheim , Stemmersberg
Osterfeld center	List of streets in Oberhausen-Osterfeld-Mitte	Osterfeld	61	13			Osterfeld-South
Rothebusch	List of streets in Oberhausen-Rothebusch	Osterfeld	26th	8th	5496	1.30
Schlad	List of streets in Oberhausen-Schlad	Alt-Oberhausen	30th	7th
Schmachtendorf	List of streets in Schmachtendorf	Sterkrade	58	9	8458	3.33	Waldhuck
Black heather	List of streets in Oberhausen-Schwarze Heide	Sterkrade	47	11	8800	3.11	Weierheide
Sterkrade center	List of streets in Oberhausen-Sterkrade-Mitte	Sterkrade	75	8th	8271
Styrum	List of streets in Oberhausen-Styrum	Alt-Oberhausen	34	9	6778	0.97
Tackenberg -East	List of streets in Oberhausen-Tackenberg-Ost	Osterfeld	42	7th	6049		Klosterhardt-Nord
Tackenberg -West	List of streets in Oberhausen-Tackenberg-West	Sterkrade	61	15th	9087
Vonderort	List of streets in Oberhausen-Vonderort	Osterfeld	21st	5			Vondern settlement
Walsumermark	List of streets in Walsumermark	Sterkrade	74	6th	9320	7.77	Brink , Im Fort, Neuköln

Streets in Oberhausen

Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Aachener Strasse	Schmachtendorf	to the city of Aachen
Ackerfeldstrasse	Sterkrade	The name suggests fields and fields
Ackerstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	The surrounding farmers used to have fields on Ackerstraße
Adolfstrasse	Oberhausen-East	named arbitrarily after the male first name	Name accumulation ( Gutehoffnungshütte settlement : male first names)
Ahornstrasse	Lirich	after the maples named	Accumulation of names (names from botany)
Akazienstrasse	Alstaden, Styrum	at the request of local residents after the acacia named	Original name: Vegetasche , Fegetaschen were highwaymen in the Middle Ages who "swept the bags", i.e. robbed the people
Aktienstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	Aktienstraße is located in the Stemmersberg settlement , and all streets there were laid out by Gutehoffnungshütte, a joint stock association for mining and smelting , and named accordingly	Name accumulation (Stemmersberg settlement: reference to Gutehoffnungshütte )
Albertstrasse	Lirich		until 1936: Schützenstrasse , on it was the target stand of the Oberhausen rifle club
Albrechtstrasse	Sterkrade	after Prince Albrecht of Prussia , who inaugurated the Johanniterkrankenhaus on the street in 1895	until 1933 Mauerstraße
Aldekamp	Sterkrade	"Old, delimited field"
Alemannenstrasse	Buschhausen	named after the tribe of the Alemanni
Alfredstrasse	Lirich	named after the male first name
Avenue street	Lirich	because of the avenue-like planting on both sides of the street	1936–1945 König-Heinrich-Strasse
Almastrasse	Styrum	after the female first name	between Pompstrasse and Mülheimer Strasse formerly Josefstrasse , between Pompstrasse and Nohlstrasse until 1937 Wolffstrasse , after the pastor from Mülheim, who had the first chapel built in Styrum in 1860
Alsenstrasse	Downtown	in memory of the Battle of Als , the Prussian-Austrian alliance in the German-Danish war won
Alsfeldstrasse	Alsfeld	"Feld am Alsbach"	formerly Alsfeldweg
Alstadener Strasse	Alstaden	Named after the old farmers of Alstaden an der Ruhr , to whom it was the border road between 1862 and 1910.	For a long time in the vernacular Holländer Straße , because many Dutch families had settled here at the time of industrialization
Alsterfeld	Alstaden	Alste is Lower Franconian for Alstaden , i.e. Alstadener Feld	until 1910 Bahnstrasse
Old heathen	Oberhausen-East	The Alte Heid was part of the Lipper Heide . It is located in the Knappenviertel.
Altenberger Strasse	Lirich	named after the Altenberg zinc factory
Old roller	new middle	In 1828/1830 the Gutehoffnungshütte built a sheet metal rolling mill on this street, which marked the beginning of the Oberhausen rolling mill. This rolling mill was popularly known as the Alte Walz until it was demolished in the 1990s .
Old market	Downtown	The Oberhausen weekly market has been held here since the church was founded in 1862.	The area was donated in 1859 by the merchant Wilhelm Stöckmann to the municipality of Styrum, which built a market square on it (see also Stöckmannstrasse ).
Altonaer Strasse	Tackenberg (West)	to Hamburg - Altona	Name accumulation (North German city names)
Amalienstraße	Alsfeld	Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , 1739,1807, Duchess of Saxony-Weimar , was considered artistically inspired and made Weimar the cultural center of her time.	Pedestrian path in the Alsfeld green belt
At the Barchembach	Borbeck	reminds of the previously open watercourse Barchembach
At the Barmscheidsgrund	Schmachtendorf	The Barmscheidshof was a clearing yard of the Hamborn Abbey .	The Barmscheidsgrund is mentioned as early as 1139 in the founding document of the Hamborn monastery as “in Bantzscheid unum mansum” (“in Bantzscheid a hoof”).
At the dam	Oberhausen-Ost, New Center	The road lies below a railway embankment.	until 1936 Dammstrasse
At the thick stone	Tackenberg (East)	Named after two boulders made of red granite that used to mark the border between the Prussian Sterkrade and the Vestic Osterfeld.
At nightfall	Schmachtendorf	The Dunkelschlag is a forest that used to have a stand of coniferous wood that was dark because of its density.
At Flachskamp	Walsumer Mark	Flax was grown here until the turn of the century .
At the Flasdieck	Walsumer Mark	Flax was still grown here until the turn of the century and left to rot in water holes until the fibers could be loosened. Flasdieck means flax pond and means such a water hole.
At the headframe	Lirich	The 2/3 pit of the Concordia colliery was located here until 1968 on the site of today's Bero Center .
At the Friday court	Osterfeld Heath	The farm of the same name, which belonged to the farmer Stemmer, used to be located here.
At the cemetery	Sterkrade	The street is named after the Catholic cemetery on Wittestrasse.
At the frog pond	Oberhausen-East	The water table was once very high here, so that ponds were formed in which frogs lived.
At the Grafenbusch	new middle	Named after the Grafenbusch settlement , which in turn takes its name from the popular name of the neighboring forest, Grafenbusch .
At the Haferkamp	Osterfeld	named after the Haferkamp farm
At the indoor pool	Sterkrade	The street is by the Sterkrade indoor swimming pool.	until 1929 part of Hüttenstraße , until 1966 part of Bahnhofstraße
At the broken hand	Holten	The Handbach flowed here for a long time through broken terrain.
At the Heisterkamp	Walsumer Mark	In Heisterkämpen , young plants were grown until they were large enough to be planted in the marrow.
At the Holl	Alstaden
At the Kaisergarten	Oberhausen center	is located directly at the Kaisergarten	until 1936 Hammerstrasse
At the cross	Muffled	There was probably a cross here that was used as a station for processions and prayers.	The spelling “Kreutz” instead of “Kreuz” suggests a very old name.
At the ditch	Barmingholten	The Landgraben is a small stream from the northeastern part of the Hühnerheide.
At the guide ditch	Schmachtendorf	The Leitgraben used to be a small stream that flowed into the Waldteichgraben, which in turn flowed into the Mühlenbach.
At the Lepkesbach	Oberhausen-East	Here is the Läppkes Mühlenbach .
At the Lohbruch	Walsumer Mark	Lohbruch is the name for a fragile area with oak trees, from which Lohe (bark) was extracted, which was necessary for leather tanning.
At the Mattenshof	Schmachtendorf
At the Mühlenbach	Rothebusch	The Mühlenbach runs right along this street.
At the Pagenkamp	Schmachtendorf	Area belonging to the Parkampshof
At the ring furnace	Walsumer Mark	named after the ring kiln of the Kahlen brickworks
At the Römerwall	Barmingholten	Roman wall refers to an old landwehr which, contrary to a widespread error, is not of Roman but of Klevian origin.	until 1917 Blumenstrasse
On the banks of the Ruhr	Alstaden	right on the banks of the Ruhr area	until 1937 Uferstrasse
On the sand hill	Walsumer Mark	In the area of ​​this road a sand hill was formerly created by winds.
At the sharp bend	Alstaden	The road guide was the occasion for the street name, the street initially extends parallel to the hollow before almost a right angle (just a sharp kink power), and the hollow abuts	until 1910 Jahnstraße , colloquially mostly just sharp bend
At the Spechtgraben	Königshardt	reminds of the now dried up Spechtgraben brook
At the moat	Holten	The city ​​moat was built around Holten to protect the place . The road follows its course.
At the Steinberg	Osterfeld	old hallway name
At the Stemmersberg	Osterfeld Heath	The plateau to which this road leads bears the name Stemmersberg just like the associated settlement . This is derived from the farmer Hermann Stemmer , who owned the Freitagshof around 1850 .
At the Stemmersgraben	Osterfeld Heath	The Stemmersgraben creek , which drained the field of the farm of farmer Hermann Stemmer, used to lie here.
At the fir bush	Walsumer Mark	There used to be a stand of spruce here, which was very noticeable in the Walsumer Haardt, which was otherwise only used for grazing purposes .
At the Teppershof	Osterfeld	The Teppershof used to be here .
At the Tüsselbeck	Schmachtendorf	lies on the Tüsselbeck watercourse	until 1917 Viktoriastraße
At the Uhlensterz	Walsumer Mark	The road lies at the southern tip of the Hiesfeld forest, which is called Uhlensterz . This name suggests many owls .
At the Veenteich	Walsumer Mark	Veen means "boggy area".
At the Vogelherd	Walsumer Mark	For a long time one of the last flocks of birds in the city lay here .
At the Vondernsprung	Osterfeld	The Vondernsprung is a tectonic jump below Vonderort, which throws the earth's layers by 160 meters.
At the forest	Alsfeld	lies at the forest Dunkelschlag
On the wall	Alstaden	The old Bergische Landwehr once ran at this point, the name recalls its ramparts.
At the weir ditch	Biefang	The moat was part of an old land defense system .
At the Winningshof	Buschhausen	named after the farm of the same name
At the Ziegelkamp	Alsfeld	is located in a former brick factory
Anvil Street	Alstaden	named after the old forge Eickelkamp	until 1910 Schmiedstrasse
Ammerweg	Königshardt	after the buntings named	Name clustering (bird names)
Amselstrasse	Klosterhardt	named after the blackbirds
Amsterdam street	new middle	The city of Amsterdam is home to the first managing director of the CentrO , Hans Matthijsse. The name also indicates the neighborly connection to the Netherlands .
At the pollard willows	Walsumer Mark	Basket willow , genus
At the hut lift	Osterfeld Heath
At the Pannhütte	Schmachtendorf	"Roof tile brick factory"
At the Schlenke	Barmingholten	The Schlenke is an old watercourse that takes its name from the many turns ("dangling") in its course.	until 1937 Seilerweg
At the clay pit	Walsumer Mark	There used to be a clay pit here.
At Kahlen's hollow	Schmachtendorf	old marl hollow
To Saint James	Tackenberg (East)	The school and social church St. Jakobus in Osterfeld e. V.
Andreas-Hofer-Strasse	Rothebusch	Andreas Hofer , 1767–1810, leader of the Tyrolean popular uprising .
Angerstrasse	Sterkrade	"Grassy land, village square", presumably there used to be meadows and pastures here.
Anhalter Strasse	Tackenberg (West)	according Anhalt named	Name accumulation (German countries)
Ankerstrasse	Borbeck	Reminiscent of the former lock III of the Rhein-Herne Canal , where ships anchored when they had to wait.	until 1940 at the lock
Annabergstrasse	Oberhausen center	after St. Anna mountain named	until 1934 Beaumontstrasse
Annastrasse	Lirich	after Holy Anna named
Antoniestrasse	Klosterhardt	named after the St. Antony Hut
Antoniusplatz	Alstaden	named after the Catholic Church of St. Anthony , in turn, for the Holy, which in turn took its name from the neighboring school Anthony Anthony of Padua is named
Antonstrasse	Lirich	The building contractor Anton Bartmann built the first houses here.
Antwerp Street	Schmachtendorf	At the time of the renaming, the German troops had just taken the Belgian city of Antwerp .	until 1917 at Brunhildstrasse
Arena Street	new middle	is located at the König-Pilsener-Arena
Ardesstrasse	Biefang	The road leads to the Ardeshof .
Arenbergstrasse	Tackenberg (East)	named after the Arenberg family
Arminstrasse	Osterfeld	Arminius , Prince of the Cherusci , who destroyed the Roman army under Varus in the Teutoburg Forest	until 1936 Bruchstrasse
Arndtstrasse	Oberhausen-East	Ernst Moritz Arndt , 1769–1860, historian and poet	Accumulation of names (poet)
Arnheimer Strasse	Schmachtendorf	named after the city of Arnhem
Arnoldstrasse	Schmachtendorf	named arbitrarily after the male first name	until 1917 Oskarstrasse
Arnold-Rademacher-Platz	Sterkrade	Arnold Rademacher (1890–1930) was a railway unionist and city councilor who was released under the National Socialists in 1933 and was taken into “protective custody” several times until 1945.
On the eyrie	Borbeck	old cadastral designation for a residual area that protruded after earth collapses
On the Haardt	Walsumer Mark	reminiscent of the old name "Walsumer Haardt", in this case means a heather	until 1917 part of what was then Heidstrasse , later Lönsstrasse
At the height	Walsumer Mark
On the Höchte	Osterfeld
On the guard	Walsumer Mark	Sheep used to be tended here.
Augustastrasse	Sterkrade	Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , 1811–1890, since 1871 as the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm I, Empress of Germany
Auguststrasse	Schmachtendorf	after the clown figure Dummer August named
August-Schmidt-Strasse	Tackenberg (East)	August Schmidt , 1878–1965, trade unionist and politician of the SPD

B.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Babcockallee	Alstaden	The German Babcock built here in 1967 apartment buildings	The largest of the multi-family houses is popularly known as the Babcockhochhaus and is the tallest building in the Alstaden district
Bachaue	Schmachtendorf	runs along the old guide ditch
Bach walkway	Sterkrade	A footbridge has always led over the Reinersbach here .
Bachstrasse	Buschhausen	Some streams used to flow here.
Backhausweg	Königshardt
Badenstrasse	Sterkrade	named after Baden	Name accumulation (German countries / tribes)
Bahnhofstrasse	Sterkrade center	The street is at the Sterkrad train station .	around 1727 Kutz straadt (in the further course led from Starkruth to Dorsten , until 1934 between Steinbrinkstrasse and Dorstener Strasse Hüttenstrasse )
Bahnstrasse	Holten	The street leads to the Holten train station .	formerly partly The Long Way , partly Steinstraße , from 1842 to 1886 Zollernstraße , until 1908 Bahnhofstraße
Barbarastrasse	Oberhausen-East	This is where the Barbarastift of the Catholic parish of St. John Evangelist is located. It is located in the Schladviertel.
Barmingholtener Strasse	Barmingholten	named after Barmingholten himself	until 1917 Hirtenstrasse
Baststrasse	Klosterhardt	The bast is the soft tissue in front of the inward growing wood of a birch . Before the settlement there were many birch trees.	The street name is related to Birkenstrasse and Borkstrasse.
Bauerfeld	Muffled	The fields of several farmers were located here in the past and in some cases even today.	until 1910 Wehrwolfstrasse
Baumberger way	Sterkrade
Tree road	Rothebusch	relates to the Rothebusch forest area
Construction road	Osterfeld	A road that has just been built.	until 1933 at the Stadtfriedhof Osterfeld Friedhofstrasse
Bayernstrasse	Sterkrade	after Bayern named	Name accumulation (German countries / tribes)
Bebelstrasse	Alstaden, Lirich	named after August Bebel , co-founder of the SPD	Main street of the Alstaden district, driving route before the turn of the century because cattle were driven into the Ruhr meadows here, until 1937 in the Oberhausen part of Westendstraße and in the Alstaden part of Kaiserstraße , until 1947 as a whole in Kaiserstraße
Beckerstrasse	Oberhausen-East	The land on this street belonged to the Beckerhof .
Beckstrasse	Osterfeld	The road drops steeply from the Rheinhocherrasse on the Düsselbeck stream .
Beeckerortstrasse	Buschhausen	The residents of Beeck created the space for the settlement of Buschhausen by clearing in the 14th century .
Beeckstrasse	Biefang	formerly connecting road from Biefang to Beeck
Berry Street	Biefang	Many blackberries used to grow here .	until 1903 Grenzweg
Beerkamp	Sterkrade	old cadastral designation, means "limited field with bears"
Beethovenstrasse	Tackenberg (West)	Ludwig van Beethoven , 1770–1827, composer	Accumulation of names (composers) until 1936 Kaiserstraße
Behrensstrasse	Alstaden	named after Carl Behrens, the 1904 bill Alstaden bought and the Hibernia AG annexing	until 1910 Friedrich-Karl-Strasse
Benzstrasse	Alstaden	named after Carl Benz , engineer and pioneer of modern car development	Accumulation of names (car manufacturer)
Bergische Hooves	Schmachtendorf	Bergische Hufe is the old expression for today's core area Schmachtendorf. The name means "hilly farm".	until 1917 part of the forest road
Bergmannstrasse	Styrum
Mountain road	Osterfeld, Rothebusch	leads up to Teutoburger Straße at a height of 78 meters	formerly between Gildenstrasse and Osterfeld-Nord Bahnhofstrasse , between station and Michelstrasse Welschestrasse , from Michelstrasse Bergstrasse
Berlin street	Osterfeld Heath	after the city of Berlin named
Bermensfeld	Oberhausen-East	old cadastral designation, reminiscent of the manor Bermen in the Lipper Heide , formerly part of the Essen monastery .	until 1915 Heidestrasse
Bernardusstrasse	Sterkrade	is at the Catholic Church of St. Bernardus
Bertastrasse	Tackenberg (West)	named arbitrarily after the female first name	in relation to the neighboring Marthastraße
Bertholdstrasse	Rothebusch	named arbitrarily after the male first name	until 1929 cross street
Beselerstrasse	Schmachtendorf	Hans von Beseler , 1850–1921, general in the First World War .	until 1914 partly Gladbacher Straße , until 1917 Hagenstraße
Biefangstrasse	Biefang, Sterkrade	leads to Biefang
Biggestraße	Alstaden	named after the Bigge River	Name accumulation ("settlements" in Alstaden near the Ruhr : tributaries of the Ruhr)
Bilsestrasse	Barmingholten	Here grew earlier hyoscyamus .	to 1917 already Bilsestraße until 1937 Schlosserstraße
Birkenstrasse	Klosterhardt	formerly a fallow land overgrown with heather with birch trees, later part of the Birkenhofsiedlung	The street name is related to Baststrasse and Borkstrasse.
Birkhahnstrasse	Königshardt	named arbitrarily after the black grouse . It is located in the Kleekamp settlement .
Bismarckstrasse	Oberhausen-East	Otto von Bismarck , 1815–1898, founder and first chancellor of the German Empire
Blattstrasse	Alstaden	allegedly because of the way the houses stand next to each other	until 1910 Nordstrasse
Blettgensweg	Alstaden	named after the innkeeper family Blettgen
Bleysfeld	Oberhausen-East	Field belonging to the Bleyshof
Blockstrasse	Alstaden	Here was a former block on the Bergisch-Märkische Railway , which was shut down in 1995.
Blücherplatz	Downtown	Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , 1742–1819, Field Marshal in the Wars of Liberation
Blücherstrasse	Downtown	see Blücherplatz
Blumbergstrasse	Lirich	Here the company Carl Blumberg & Cie built a tar factory and workers' houses around 1870.
Blumenthalstrasse	Downtown	Leonhard von Blumenthal , 1810–1900, Field Marshal General in the Wars of Unification
Flower Street	Styrum		continues the name it bears in Mülheim
Bocholter Strasse	Tackenberg (East)	named after Bocholt
Bockmühlenstrasse	Klosterhardt	The post mill stood here as early as 1805 and until the Second World War .
Bodenstrasse	Sterkrade	Bodenstraße is close to Ackerfeldstraße and Grundstraße. The terms “ground”, “soil”, “field” and “field” are all similar in meaning.	Name accumulation (word field soil )
Bogenstrasse	Styrum	The road makes two arcs in its course.
Bonetstrasse	Alstaden	reminds of the former landowner Bonet	The area in which the street is located was formerly known as behind Bonet's garden .
Bonmannplatz	Lirich	old Lirich family
Bonmannstrasse	Lirich	see Bonmannplatz
Borbecker Strasse	Sterkrade	named after Borbeck
Borbruchstrasse	Walsumer Mark	The Borbruch ("Quellen-Bruch") is an area in the Schlägerheide from which water seeps, which flows through the Borbuchgraben into the Rotbach .
Borkener Strasse	Osterfeld	named after Borken	Accumulation of names (small Westphalian towns)
Borkstrasse	Klosterhardt	The bark is the outermost layer on most trees. Before the settlement there were many birch trees.	The street name is related to Baststrasse and Birkenstrasse.
Bottroper Strasse	Osterfeld	Named after the neighboring town of Bottrop , with which Osterfeld is closely connected.	until 1936 between Sterkrader Strasse and Rheinischer Eisenbahn Oberhausener Strasse and between Rheinischer Eisenbahn and Westfälischer Strasse Hauptstrasse
Brackstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	The road was laid out on the property of the miner Wilhelm Brackmann .
Brahmkampstrasse	Osterfeld	“Brahmkamp” refers to a delimited field on the edge of a wasteland.
Brahmsweg	Alsfeld	Johannes Brahms , 1833–1897, musician and composer	Accumulation of names (composers)
Slab ring	new middle	The electric steelworks and continuous casters from Thyssen were formerly located here .
Brandenburger Strasse	Sterkrade	named after Brandenburg
Braunschweigstrasse	Sterkrade	named after the Duchy of Braunschweig	Name accumulation (German countries)
Breilstrasse	Osterfeld	old cadastral designation ("Breilwiese")
Breitenbruch	Alstaden	"wide swamp", subsidence of the upper lower terrace to the Rhine	Stress on the last syllable ( IPA : [bʁaɪ̯tn̩ˈbʁʊχ]) until 1910 Luisenstrasse
Bremener Strasse	Tackenberg (West)	named after the north German city of Bremen	Name clustering (northern German cities)
Bremenkampstrasse	Schmachtendorf	The Bremekampshof used to be here . “Bremekamp” can be understood as a delimited field on the edge of a wasteland.	formerly Brömmekampstraße , later in 1917 Kreuzstraße and south of Waldhuckstraße Peterstraße
Bremerhavener Strasse	Tackenberg (West)	named after the northern German city of Bremerhaven	Name clustering (northern German cities)
Brinkstrasse	Buschhausen	Brink means "small grass hill" or "wet meadow".
Brögel	Alstaden	Brögel is a dialect name for a jetty or a bridge. A bridge over a moat was built here in 1855 when the main line of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company was being built.
Brohmstrasse	Klosterhardt	Brohm could mean “ gorse bush ” or “ blackberries ”.
Broicher Strasse	Alstaden	broich, brooch refers to a swamp area, the northern edge of the Breitenbruch used to be here	until 1910 Franzenkamp
Bromberger Strasse	Alsfeld	by Bromberg named
Bronkhorststrasse	Tackenberg (West)	The area used to belong to Wilhelm Bronkhorst to Boehmerskath .
Break web	Holten	Steg is a Lower Rhine name for streets and paths that leave a main road. Fraction refers to the Holten fracture.
Bricktorstrasse	Oberhausen-East	The road ends directly at the bridge of the Cologne-Mindener Railway , which was built in 1846 according to the state of the art with arches for each individual track. Am Brückor quickly became the name for the area.	until 1911 between Lipperheidstrasse and Knappenstrasse Kirchweg
Brothers Grimm Way	Sterkrade	Brothers Grimm (Jakob, 1785–1863, and Wilhelm, 1786–1859), founders of German philology, editors of children's and household tales and a German dictionary
Brothers Street	Sterkrade	The Schulte-Hubbert brothers built the first houses on this street.
Brussels Street	new middle	The naming after Brussels indicates the Western European, central location of the CentrO .
Brunhildstrasse	Buschhausen	named after the legendary figure Brunhild	Accumulation of names (legends)
Brunostrasse	Alstaden	named arbitrarily after the male first name	Sandstrasse until 1910 , Hügelstrasse until 1934
Brusbachstrasse	Barmingholten	The Brusbach used to flow here .	until 1934 Ackerstraße
Buchenweg	Walsumer Mark, Schmachtendorf	Up until around 1920 there was a beech forest in the Sterkrad Forest , which had to give way to a modern settlement.	until 1917 Koenigstrasse
Ironing Street	Styrum	The street forms with the Mülheimer Straße and the Grenzstraße roughly the shape of an iron.
Bürgerstrasse	Alstaden	The Alstadener Bürgerhaus used to be located here, which later became the Carl-Sonnenschein-Haus , now a Caritas facility.
Mayor's Way	Königshardt, Schmachtendorf	Probably named in memory of the mayor of Sterkrad.
Bunsenstrasse	Holten	Robert Bunsen , 1811–1899, inventor of the Bunsen burner	in reference to the nearby Ruhr chemistry named to 1929 Ziegelstraße
Burgstrasse	Holten	On the hill on which Fort Holten stands today, there used to be a refuge.
Buschhausener Strasse	Buschhausen, Lirich	crosses Buschhausen	from 1846 to 1918 between Duisburger Strasse and Tannenbergstrasse Mathildenstrasse , between Max-Eyth-Strasse and Duisburger Strasse Friedrichstrasse to 1945 Ludendorffstrasse Erich Ludendorff
Bush heather	Osterfeld Heath	old cadastral designation, stands for a heather with timber	until 1935 Peterstrasse
Bushmen	Borbeck	old cadastral designation, "fields delimited with protective bushes"	until 1915 Eisenstrasse
Bushman Field	Buschhausen	The street was laid out on the fields of the Buschmannshof , which also gave the settlement and the later Buschhausen district its name.
Bush road	Klosterhardt	laid out in an area with a bat
Buzzard Street	Tackenberg (West)	named after the buzzards	Accumulation of names (birds of prey)

C.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Cäcilienstraße	Schmachtendorf	after Holy Saint Cecilia named
Casino Park	Buschhausen	reminds of the former Agricultural Casino Buschhausen, which organized harvest festivities, exhibitions and horse tournaments
Centroallee	new middle	The Centroallee encloses the core of the CentrO .
Charlottenstrasse	Alstaden	Sophie Charlotte von Hannover , 1668–1705, wife of King Friedrich I of Prussia , a recognized, intelligent and culturally committed woman	until 1910 Grünstraße
Cheruskerstrasse	Osterfeld	after the Cherusci named
Christian-Steger-Strasse	Downtown	Christian Steger, 1872–1940, miner, member of the state parliament of the Center Party	until 1947 Lüderitzstrasse
Christinestrasse	Sterkrade	Christine of Sweden , 1626–1689, Queen of Sweden from 1643 to 1654
Christoph-Schlingensief-Strasse	Downtown	Christoph Schlingensief , 1960–2010, film and theater director and author	until 1935 Mittelstraße , until 1959 Rudolf-Herzog-Straße ( Rudolf Herzog ), until 2012 Pacellistraße ( Eugenio Pacelli )
Concordiaplatz	Lirich	is in the middle of a settlement of the Concordia colliery
Concordiastrasse	Lirich	reminds of the Concordia colliery	around 1850 Wasserleitungsstrasse , around 1911 Wilmsstrasse , from Gustavstrasse to Hansastrasse connecting road , from 1921 to 1936 in total Wilmsstrasse
Cuxhavener Strasse	Tackenberg (West)	named after Cuxhaven	Name clustering (northern German cities)

D.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Roof street	Alstaden	Robert Dach was director of the Alstaden colliery from 1870 to 1900 .
Dachsstrasse	Alsfeld	named after the badger	Accumulation of names (predators)
Dännenkamp	Barmingholten	means "fir field", indicates the coniferous forest east of the federal railway line.
Dahlia path	Osterfeld	Named at the suggestion of the local residents after the dahlias that were previously grown here by the Winkelheck nursery.
Daimlerstrasse	Alstaden	Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), engineer and pioneer of automotive engineering	Name accumulation (car manufacturer) until 1910 Blumenstraße , until 1937: Gärtnerstraße
Dam road	Sterkrade	lies on the embankment of the Oberhausen-Emmerich railway line
Danziger Strasse	Muffled	named after Danzig	until 1934 Zechenstrasse
Dellerheide	Barmingholten	is located on the Dellerheide ("heather that lies in a depression")
Dellwiger Strasse	Oberhausen-East	named after Dellwig	until 1915 Bahnhofstrasse
Derfflingerstrasse	Alstaden	Georg von Derfflinger , 1606–1695, Field Marshal General and founder of the Prussian Army
Dianastrasse	Alsfeld	named after Diana
Dieckerhoffstrasse	Muffled	led to Dieckermanns Hof
Dieckerstrasse	Oberhausen-East	was at Dieckermanns Hof
Dieningstrasse	Oberhausen-East	Wilhelm Diening built the first houses here. It is located in the Schladviertel.
Service road	Biefang		mentioned as early as 1720
Diepenbruckstrasse	Buschhausen	old field name, "deep, wet terrain"	Tiefenbruchstrasse in High German until 1914
Diesel road	Alstaden	Rudolf Diesel , 1858–1913, inventor of the diesel engine	Name accumulation (car manufacturer) until 1910 Neustraße , until 1936 Gewannstraße
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Strasse	Oberhausen-East	Dietrich Bonhoeffer , 1906–1945, Protestant pastor and resistance fighter of the Confessing Church . It is located in the Schladviertel.	until 1959 part of Stiftstrasse
Dinnendahlstrasse	Tackenberg (West)	Franz Dinnendahl , 1775–1826, builder of the first steam engine for mining	around 1900 partly Antoniestraße , until 1937 in the upper part Heinrichstraße , in the lower part Teichstraße
Dinslakener Strasse	Holten	leads to Dinslaken	formerly Mühlenstrasse
Dirlingsweg	Tackenberg (East)	Reminds of the Dirlingshof .
Dörnemannstrasse	Tackenberg (West)	Reminds of the farmer Dörnemann, whose farm was located here according to a floor plan from 1793.
Jackdaw Street	Königshardt	named after the jackdaw
Dorotheenstrasse	Lirich	probably after Electress Dorothea von Brandenburg named	until 1933 at Baustraße
Dorstener Strasse	Sterkrade, Tackenberg	leads via Kirchhellen to Dorsten	until 1936 in the Sterkrad area of Münsterstrasse
Dragonerstrasse	Alsfeld	named after the Dragoons	Name accumulation (reference to the siege of Kolberg in 1807 ) formerly Franziskastraße
Three squires	Oberhausen-East	The three high-rise buildings erected here around 1960 were quickly given the nickname Drei Knappen . It is located in the Knappenviertel.
Dreilinden	Sterkrade	Named after the Dreilinden inn , which in turn was named after three in front of the Linden building .
Drosselstrasse	Tackenberg (East)	after the throttles named	formerly dividing road
Droste-Hülshoff-Strasse	Rothebusch	Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , 1797–1848, poet	until 1933 Parkstrasse
Drostenkampstrasse	Holten	Drostenkamp is an ancient cadastral designation: "Field of the Office of the Authority"
Druckerstrasse	Styrum	Probably based on the original name Gutenbergstrasse , which it carried until 1910.
Dudelerstrasse	Schmachtendorf	named after the old Dudeler Hof	today a pedestrian zone and shopping street
Dülmener Strasse	Osterfeld	named after Dülmen
Dümptener Heide	Oberhausen center
Dümpterkamp	Muffled	The Dümpten field is still a large arable area today.
Düppelstrasse	Downtown	reminds of the storming of the Düppeler Schanzen
Duisburger Strasse	Lirich	leads to Duisburg	until 1892 Meiderich-Steeler-Provinzialstraße

E.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Ebereschenweg	Schmachtendorf, Walsumer Mark	There are many mountain ash trees in the area .
Ebersbachstrasse	Königshardt	named after the Ebersbach	until 1937 Roonstrasse
Ebertplatz	Oberhausen center	Friedrich Ebert , 1871–1925, politician of the SPD and first Reich President of the Weimar Republic	until 1918 Neumarkt , until 1947 Hindenburgplatz
Ebertstrasse	Oberhausen center	see Ebertplatz	until 1918 Wilhelmstraße , until 1947 Hindenburgstraße
Eckstrasse	Styrum	In the past, part of what is now Straßburger Strasse belonged to Eckstrasse, so that it was recognizable around the corner.
Edmundstrasse	Biefang	named arbitrarily after the male first name	until 1929 Blumenstrasse
Eduard-Berg-Platz	Downtown	Eduard Berg was the Jewish owner of a textile shop that stood at this point. The Berg family were deported to Riga in 1942 and murdered there.
Egelsfurthstrasse	Sterkrade	old hallway name
Eibenstrasse	Walsumer Mark	named after the yew tree	Accumulation of names ( softwoods )
Eichelkampstrasse	Sterkrade	"Field with oaks", old field name	one of the oldest streets in Sterkrade
Eichendorffstrasse	Schmachtendorf	Joseph von Eichendorff , 1788–1857, romantic poet	until 1917 Josefstraße , until 1937 Rudolfstraße
Oak Street	Sterkrade	is located on Grafenbusch, where many oaks grow
Eichsfeldstrasse	Schmachtendorf	So named on the suggestion of some residents from Eichsfeld	formerly Ringofenstrasse , later Sudetenstrasse
Eichstrasse	Oberhausen-East	reminds of the Eichholz-Kotten that once lay here
Eickelstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	in connection with the neighboring Wanner road after the village Eickel named	until 1934 Grenzstrasse
Eifeler Strasse	Sterkrade	after the Eifel named	until 1936 Dellwigstrasse
Home street	Rothebusch	Between 1950 and 1955, several private homes were built here by Heimbau eGmbH .
Bucket path	Schmachtendorf	Gerhard Eimers (1856–1913) built a grocery store in 1895 for the then widely scattered population of Brink .
Einbleckstrasse	Borbeck	"Contiguous meadow / field area"	already registered as Das Einbleck on a map in 1825
Eisenheimer Strasse	Osterfeld Heath	is in the Eisenheim settlement
Eitelstrasse	Walsumer Mark	So called out of joy at the birth of Eitel Friedrich von Prussia
Elisabethstrasse	Alstaden	The road was laid out on the property of Elisabeth Wolters.
Elisenstrasse	Holten	There are two interpretations: named after Elisabeth von der Capellen, Abbess von Sterkrade, who fled with her convent to Holten in 1583 before the destruction of her monastery in the Eighty Years War and stayed there for over 30 years. named after the Elsenbruch to which it leads ("swamp with alders ") ||
Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Strasse	Tackenberg (West)	Elly Heuss-Knapp , 1881–1952, wife of Theodor Heuss and founder of the maternal recovery organization
Elpenbachstrasse	Klosterhardt, Tackenberg (East)	named after the Elpenbach	until 1936 Teilungsstrasse (south of Tackenbergstrasse Bachstrasse )
Elsa-Brändström-Strasse	Oberhausen center	Elsa Brändström , 1888–1948, “Angel of Siberia”, initiator of the relief organization for German and Austrian prisoners of war in Russia
Alsatian street	Downtown	in connection with the Lothringerstraße after Alsace named
Elsenbruch	Holten	"Swamp with alders "
Elsternstrasse	Königshardt	after the magpie named	Name clustering (birds)
Emdenstrasse	Sterkrade	named after the city of Emden in northern Germany	until 1933 Baustraße , name accumulation
Emilstrasse	Sterkrade	arbitrary naming after the male first name	Name accumulation (male first names)
Emmastrasse	Sterkrade	arbitrary naming after the female first name	Name accumulation (female first names)
Emmericher Strasse	Barmingholten	leads to Emmerich	until 1917 Hiesfelder Straße , until 1929 Eltenstraße
Emmichstrasse	Schmachtendorf	Otto von Emmich , 1848–1928, general in the First World War
Emschertalstrasse	Buschhausen	lies in the valley of the Emscher	around 1903 Emscherstrasse
Emscherstrasse	Lirich	named after the Emscher
Emsstrasse	Osterfeld	named after the Ems	until 1936 Düsselstrasse
Engelbertstrasse	Tackenberg (East)	Duke Engelbert von Arenberg , first arenberg sovereign over the Vest Recklinghausen and thus over Osterfeld
Hermit Garden	Osterfeld	Reminds of the chapel at the hermitage of a hermit who lived here from 1707 to 1784. The chapel was lined with bushes and trees (hence the garden ).
Erftstrasse	Alstaden	named after the Erft	until 1938 sand road
Erikastrasse	Osterfeld Heath	in reference to the former name Heidestraße after the Erika's named
Erlenstrasse	Sterkrade	after the alder named
Ernastrasse	Alstaden	named arbitrarily after the female first name	Mittelstraße until 1910 , Birkenstraße until 1933
Ernststrasse	Holten	Ernst von Mansfeld , mercenary in the Thirty Years War (in connection with Gustav- Adolf- , Wallenstein- and Tillystraße )	Name clustering
Erzbergerstrasse	Alsfeld	Matthias Erzberger , 1875–1921, politician at the center	until 1947 Kronprinzstrasse
Erzstrasse	Sterkrade	refers to the iron processing industry in the Ruhr area. It is located in the Dunkelschlag settlement
Eschenbruchshof	Osterfeld	named after the Eschenbruchshof , which used to be here
Eschenstrasse	Lirich	named after the ash trees	Accumulation of names (terms from botany)
Essener Strasse	New center, Bermensfeld	leads to food	until 1892 Meiderich-Steeler-Provinzialstraße
Etzelstrasse	Buschhausen	Attila (also called Etzel ), 434–453, King of the Huns
Eugen-zur-Nieden-Ring	Sterkrade	Eugen zur Nieden, 1873–1937, Mayor of Sterkrade
Owl Street	Tackenberg (West)	named after the owls	Accumulation of names (birds of prey)
Eupenstrasse	Königshardt	The city of Eupen had to be ceded to Belgium in 1914.
Europaallee	new middle	This name is intended to express the European, supra-regional character of the CentrO .
Everslohstrasse	Königshardt	Named after the Eversloh forest , which in turn takes its name from the Kotten of the settler Evers.
Ewaldstrasse	Sterkrade	arbitrary naming after the male first name	Name accumulation (male first names)

F.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Ferry road	Alstaden	This used to be the pier for the Ruhr ferry, which connected Alstaden with Speldorf until well into the 19th century .
Fafnerstrasse	Buschhausen	Fafner is a dragon from Norse mythology	Accumulation of names (legends)
Fahnhorststrasse	Osterfeld center	old hallway name
Falkensteinstrasse	Marienviertel, Schlad	old hallway name ( on the Falkenstein )
Falkestrasse	Königshardt	named after the falcon	Accumulation of names (birds of prey)
Family street	Lirich	The Altenberg company built houses here for the families of their employees around 1850, which were popularly known as family buildings .
Fasanstrasse	Black heather	Pheasants used to be very common in the area around the forest pond .
Feldhofstrasse	Alsfeld	named after the landowner Feldhof
Feldmannstrasse	Muffled	used to lead through the fields of the farmer Feldmann
Feldstrasse	Buschhausen	leads through fields
Ferdinandstrasse	Schmachtendorf	named arbitrarily after the male first name	Jacobstraße until 1917 , Glückaufstraße until 1936
Fernewaldstrasse	Klosterhardt	named after the Fernewald forest, which is now part of the Hohe Mark Nature Park
Fichtestrasse	Buschhausen	Johann Gottlieb Fichte , 1762–1814, philosopher of German idealism
Financial street	Sterkrade center	refers to the banks located here
Finkenweg	Sterkrade center	named after the finch
Fischerstrasse	Alstaden	Fishermen who fished in the Ruhr probably settled here in the past.	until 1910 Parallelstraße , until 1933 Bergstraße
Flax road	Walsumermark	Flax was grown here until the middle of the 20th century .
Flanders Road	Schmachtendorf	named after Flanders	Name accumulation (reference to Belgium )
Flaßhofstrasse	Downtown	Christian Flaßhof, in 1845 with his brother-in-law Jobst Waldthausen and Wilhelm Lueg sank holes on the Lipper Heide and came across coal in the process. This led to the establishment of the Concordia colliery .	1914 started on the former Eintrachtstraße the prostitution . As a result, the upper part of Eintrachtstrasse was renamed Flaßhofstrasse . After the brothel operation was closed in 1921 by order of the district president, the residents of Eintrachtstrasse insisted on changing their name in order to be protected from harassment and were therefore assigned to Flaßhofstrasse. When the brothel business began again in the thirties, the section north of Hermann-Albertz-Straße was renamed Linsingenstraße in 1938 .
Flensburger Strasse	Sterkrade center	after the city of Flensburg named	Name clustering (northern German cities)
Flake field	Alstaden	flakes were planted in the farmer's fields	until 1910 Moltkestrasse
Flöz-Gretchen-Strasse	Tackenberg	The Gretchen seam is a coal seam of the Bochum strata.	Accumulation of names ( coal seams )
Flöz-Herrenbank-Strasse	Tackenberg	The Röttgersbank seam (also called Herrenbank seam ) is a coal seam of the Bochum layers.	Accumulation of names ( coal seams )
Flöz-Laura-Strasse	Tackenberg	The Laura seam is a gas coal seam of the Essen strata.	Accumulation of names ( coal seams )
Flöz-Matthias-Strasse	Tackenberg	The Matthias seam is a coal seam of the Bochum strata.	Accumulation of names ( coal seams )
Flöz-Röttgersbank-Strasse	Tackenberg	see Flöz-Herrenbank-Straße	Accumulation of names ( coal seams )
Wing street	Alstaden	The Hoppermannsmühle used to stand here . Its wings are said to have fallen off in a storm at the beginning of the 20th century and thus given the street its name after it was incorporated.	Today the wings of the Hotel Zur Mühle (often popularly known as Neue Hoppermannsmühle ) are a reminder of the past. around 1870 Heidstrasse , until 1910 Mühlenstrasse
Airway	Holten	reminds of the old Holten airfield
Hallway	Schlad	Corridor means agricultural land through which the road ran.
Föhrenstrasse	Black heather	named after the pine	until 1933 Birkenstrasse
Foersterstrasse	Alsfeld	The forester's farm was located here around 1727 .
Forsterbruchstrasse	Buschhausen	used to run through Forster Bruch
Forsthofstrasse	Alsfeld	A yard of the forester's house Handbeck , after which the street is named, was probably located here .
Forest road	Schmachtendorf	separates the forest areas of Hühnerheide and Dellerheide
Fort Street	Walsumermark	The fort is a small side valley of the Rotbach , from which the name of the settlement Im Fort is derived.
Frankenstrasse	Schmachtendorf	named after the Franks	until 1917 part of Südstrasse
Franzenkamp	Alstaden	old cadastral designation, French soldiers are said to have camped here in the War of Spanish Succession around 1702.	until 1910 Blücherstrasse
Franzosenstrasse	Walsumermark	a route of retreat for the French army during the wars of liberation
Franzstrasse	Schmachtendorf	arbitrary naming after the male first name
Franz Schröer Way	Alsfeld	Franz Schröer (1916–1984) was pastor at St. Pius Alsfeld from 1961 until his death. Under him the church and the parish center were built and the rectorate parish was founded.	In 2001 the parish of St. Pius merged with the parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In 2007, the Pius Church was classified as "another church" and demolished a year later like the Hildegard Church in Alstaden.
Freiherr-vom-Stein-Strasse	Marienviertel	Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein , 1757–1831, reformer of the Prussian state
Freiligrathstrasse	Osterfeld center	Ferdinand Freiligrath , 1810–1875, poet in the German Revolution	until 1935 Mittelstrasse
Friday field	Osterfeld Heath	was laid out in the field of the farmer Friday
Freitaler Platz	Sterkrade center	Freital has been a twin town of Oberhausen since 1990.
Friedensplatz	Downtown	Symbolizing the enormous importance of peace	until 1904 Kaiserplatz , until 1933 Industrieplatz , until 1945 Adolf-Hitler-Platz
Friedenstrasse	Downtown
Friedhofstrasse	Styrum	located at the Catholic cemetery of the parish of St. Joseph (parish Herz Jesu )
Friedrich-Karl-Strasse	Downtown	Friedrich Karl von Prussia , Field Marshal General 1828–1885, led the assault on the Düppeler Schanzen
Friedrich-List-Strasse	Marienviertel	Friedrich List , 1789–1846, economic politician and national economist, co-founder of the German railway system
Friedrichstrasse	Sterkrade	Emperor Friedrich III. , 1831–1888, Emperor of Germany for 99 days
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Wiegand-Strasse	Buschhausen	Friedrich Wilhelm Wieland, 1878–1953, founder of Contilack- und Farbwerke Friedrich-Wilhelm-Wiegang-Söhne GmbH
Friesenstrasse	Buschhausen	named after Friesland	Name accumulation (German states) until 1933 Nordoberhausener Straße , in the northern part Oberhausenstraße , from 1937 to 1945 Ernst-Weinstein- Straße
Frintroper Street	Muffled	named after Frintrop	Name accumulation ( Essen districts)
Fritz-Eickelen-Strasse	Alstaden	Fritz Eickelen (1926–2013) was mayor of Oberhausen for many years and from 1967 to 1992 chairman of the Styrum Citizens' Association .
Fritz-Giga-Strasse	Alstaden	Fritz Giga was a communist who resisted National Socialism in Oberhausen and was arrested and tortured for it in 1934. After his recovery he took part in the Spanish Civil War against General Francisco Franco , in which he died in 1937 at Romanillos.
Froebelplatz	Alstaden	Friedrich Fröbel , 1782–1852, educator and creator of the kindergarten movement	until 1937 Bismarckplatz
Fürstenstrasse	Tackenberg	named after the princes	Accumulation of names (rulers)
Fuhlenbrockstrasse	Klosterhardt	leads to Fuhlenbrock
Fulda Street	Osterfeld Heath	named after the Fulda	Name accumulation until 1937 Kasernenstrasse

G

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Fork road	Walsumermark	Before the Holland autobahn was built, Gabelstrasse connected Neuköllner Strasse with Waldhuckstrasse. At the confluence, Waldhuckstraße zigzagged that both streets together formed the shape of a fork.
Gartnerstrasse	Sterkrade center	The Tümmers nursery was located here.	until 1934 Hoffnungsstrasse
Gartroper Street	Buschhausen	named after Gartrop	Many men from Gartrop, Gahlen and Hünxe found work and settled here.
Gehrbergstrasse	Osterfeld center	"Gehre" means "gusset", "wedge-shaped, triangular piece". Gehrberg means "wedge-shaped mountain". Old cadastral designation.
Geibelstrasse	Downtown	Emanuel Geibel , 1815–1884, poet	until 1929 Querstraße , 1933 to 1945 Dietrich-Grabbe-Straße
Geitlingstrasse	Alstaden	The Geitling seam is an edible coal seam of the Witten layers.
Gellertstrasse	Alstaden	Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , 1715–1769, poet and writer	until 1910 Oberhausener Straße , until 1937 Herzogstraße , until 1945 Dietrich-Eckart-Straße ( Dietrich Eckart )
Ghent Street	Schmachtendorf	named after Gent	until 1917 Siegfriedstrasse
Georgstrasse	Sterkrade center	named arbitrarily after the male first name	Name accumulation (male first names)
Gerdastrasse	Muffled	named arbitrarily after the female first name	until 1910 Querstraße , until 1937 Paulstraße
Court Street	Downtown	lies at the district court
Gertrudstrasse	Alstaden	was laid out on his property by the brickworks owner Fritz Becker and therefore named after his wife in 1910	until 1910 Steinstrasse
Union Street	Downtown	according to the unions named	formerly Moselstrasse , later Bellemestrasse , 1934–1946 Mackensenstrasse
Giesbertstrasse	Osterfeld center	named after the farmer Heinrich Giesbert
Guild Street	Osterfeld center	based on the old Osterfeld merchants' guild	until 1936 Marktstraße , until 1945 Litzmannstraße
Gorse path	Tackenberg	reminiscent of the gorse bush	until 1936 forest road
Girondelles	Lirich	The Girondelle seam is an edible coal seam of the Witten layers.
Glass Street	Lirich	reminds of the old Oberhausen glass factory that stood here from 1877 to 1891
Glockenstrasse	Styrum	The street is behind the Styrum Catholic Church of St. Joseph, whose bells led to the naming of the street.
Glückaufstrasse	Vonderort	Glück auf is the traditional greeting from miners. The street is in the miners' settlement of Vondern
Goebenstrasse	Downtown	August von Goeben , 1816–1880, general in the German-Danish and German-French wars .	until 1892 popularly in Hosenbandelstrasse
Goerdelerstrasse	Biefang	Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , 1884–1944, resistance fighter
Goethestrasse	Marienviertel	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , 1749–1832, Germany's greatest poet
Goliath Street	Tackenberg	named after Goliath
Gotenstrasse	Styrum	named after the Goths	Relation to Römerstraße
Gottfriedstrasse	Buschhausen	The street is at the cemetery of the Catholic Church of St. Joseph. Since Gottfried means “divine peace”, the street was given this name.	until 1935 at Friedenstrasse
Grabenstrasse	Schmachtendorf	The Nassenkampgraben , a small stream, used to run past here.
Grafenstrasse	Tackenberg	named after the count	Accumulation of names (rulers)
Graf-von-der-Mark-Strasse	Holten	Engelbert II von der Mark married Mechthild, a granddaughter of Mechthildi von Holten, in 1299, so that the ownership of Holten passed to the Counts of the Mark. In 1310 he gave Holten city rights.
Graf-Zeppelin-Strasse	Buschhausen	Ferdinand von Zeppelin , 1838–1917, airship pioneer
Graßhofstrasse	Barmingholten	named after the Graßhof
Graudenzer Strasse	Tackenberg	named after Graudenz
Gravestrasse	Knappenviertel	This is where the landlord Grave built the first houses.
Greenstrasse	Osterfeld center	old cadastral designation ("Das Green")
Greifswalder Strasse	Sterkrade center	named after the city of Greifswald	Name clustering (northern German cities)
Border road	Downtown, Styrum	the northern border of Styrum until 1862 and the northern border of Mülheim until 1910	1936 to 1947 Erich-König-Strasse
Border weir	Schmachtendorf	is close to the Landwehr created by the Duchy of Kleve
Grevenstrasse	Styrum	Ferdinand Greven was a medical councilor who lived here for a long time and practiced as a doctor.	until 1910 Südstrasse
Griesheimer Strasse	Alstaden	For obscure reasons this street is named after the city of Griesheim .	until 1936 Hofstrasse
Grillostrasse	Marienviertel	Friedrich Grillo , 1825–1888, industrialist and founder of various entrepreneurs
Grimmstrasse	Buschhausen	Brothers Grimm , founders of German philology, editor of children's and household tales and a German dictionary
Big market	Sterkrade center	The Great Market is the central hub of Sterkrade.	Until 1904 old market
Grothestrasse	Knappenviertel	leads over the property of the Grothekotten
Pit road	Alsfeld	In the miner's language, pit refers to an entire mine.	Name accumulation ( settlement Dunkelschlag : terms from mining)
Green floodplain	Alstaden	indicates a green meadow
Green angle	Alstaden	surrounded with green of nature
Grünstrasse	Lirich	used to lead through mostly undeveloped land
Grundstrasse	Sterkrade center	Grundstrasse is close to Ackerfeldstrasse and Bodenstrasse. The terms "arable", "field", "ground" and "soil" are all similar in meaning.	Name clustering
Gudrunstrasse	Buschhausen	named after the Gudrun song	Accumulation of names (legends)
Günther-Büch-Strasse	Alstaden	Günther Büch , 1932–1977, was acting director at the Oberhausen Theater for ten years
Güterstrasse	Lirich	leads to the Oberhausen West freight yard
Gundlachstrasse	Styrum	long-established Styrum family
Gustav-Adolf-Strasse	Holten	Gustav II. Adolf , 1594-1632, King of Sweden, reached in 1630 on the Protestant side in the Thirty Years' War , a
Gustavstrasse	Lirich	named arbitrarily after the male first name
Good road	Osterfeld Heath	named after the Gutehoffnungshütte
Gutenbergstrasse	Downtown	Johannes Gutenberg , 1397–1468, inventor of the printing press	until 1896 Martinstrasse
Gymnasialstrasse	Sterkrade center	is at Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium	1934 to 1945 Schlageterplatz ( Albert Leo Schlageter )

H

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Habichtstrasse	Schmachtendorf	named after the hawk	Name accumulation (birds of prey) until 1933 Bogenstrasse
Häherstrasse	Königshardt	named after the jay	Name clustering (birds)
Hafenstrasse	Borbeck	is located at the former lock III of the Rhine-Herne Canal	reminds together with the anchor road of the ships that often dock in the canal
Hagedornstrasse	Black heather	The Hagedorns-Hof is one of the oldest farms on the Black Heath.	one of the oldest streets in Sterkrade, already existed in 1217 as a connection between the Sterkrade monastery and Hamborn
Hagelkreuzstrasse	Buschhausen	was named after a hail cross erected in 1772	The Hagelkreuz, which was renewed in 1963, is still on the corner of Hagelkreuzstrasse and Westmarkstrasse.
Hagenstrasse	Buschhausen	named after Hagen von Tronje , legendary figure from the Nibelungenlied	Accumulation of names (legends)
Hahnenstrasse	Schlad	The land on which the road was built partly belonged to the long-established Oberhauser Hahn family .
Haldenstrasse	Alstaden	Located on the Solbadhalde (actually Halde Alstaden ), the mining dump of the Alstaden colliery , which today serves as a green area and local recreation area.	until 1900 partly Schillerstrasse and partly Uhlandstrasse
Hallerbachstrasse	Alsfeld	The Hallerbachhof used to be located here .
Halterner Strasse	Osterfeld center	named after Haltern am See
Hamborner Allee	Buschhausen	until a few years ago led to Hamborn	until 1936 Duisburger Strasse
Hamburger Street	Sterkrade center	to Hamburg named	Name clustering (northern German cities)
Hammerstrasse	Buschhausen	refers to the iron processing industry	formerly name accumulation (Schlägel-, Eisen-, Anboß- and Stahlstraße are no longer available)
Handbachstrasse	Schmachtendorf	named after the Handbach	until 1917 Südstrasse
Hanielstrasse	Klosterhardt	Franz Haniel junior , 1842–1916, entrepreneur who campaigned for the Franz Haniel colliery , which is therefore named after him.
Hansastrasse	Lirich	named after the Hanseatic League
Hans-Sachs-Strasse	Osterfeld center	Hans Sachs , 1494–1576, Nuremberg master-singer and playwright	until 1935 Poststrasse
Harkortstrasse	Klosterhardt	Friedrich Harkort , 1793–1880, industrial pioneer in the Ruhr area	until 1937 between Teutoburger and Klosterhardter Straße Fuhlenbrockstraße , between Klosterhardter and Spechtstraße Egelbuschstraße
Harpener Strasse	Muffled	named after the Harpen Mining AG , the bill Roland belonged
Harpen way	Muffled	see Harpener Strasse
Hartfeldstrasse	Barmingholten	"Hirschfeld"	until 1917 Alleestrasse
Hartmannstrasse	Königshardt	Hartmann must have been a landowner through whose fields the road was laid.
Hartmannsweilerstrasse	Klosterhardt	presumably after the Battle of Hartmannsweilerkopf named	until 1936 Biefangweg
Hasenstrasse	Klosterhardt	Many rabbits used to live here .
Hattinger Strasse	Bermensfeld	named after Hattingen
Hauerweg	Alstaden	The Hauer establishes the connection to the Alstaden colliery , on the site of which the settlement was built.
Hauffweg	Alsfeld	Wilhelm Hauff , 1802–1827, romantic, storyteller and poet
Hausbergstrasse	Schlad	was in the fields, the farmer mountain created
Hausmannsfeld	Bermensfeld	was laid out in the fields of the Hausmannshof	until 1915 Lipperstrasse
Havensteinstrasse	Downtown	Berthold Otto Havenstein (1867–1945) was Lord Mayor of Oberhausen from 1906 to 1930.	until 1937 Kronprinzenstraße , until 1946 Joseph-Goebbels-Straße
Hedwigstrasse	Sterkrade center	named arbitrarily after the female first name	Name accumulation (female first names)
Hegelstrasse	Buschhausen	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , 1770–1831, philosopher
Hegerfeldstrasse	Black heather	old cadastral designation, going to the Hegerhof back	originally Hegerweg
Heiderhöfen	Alstaden	The Heiderhöfen residential area has existed here since the High Middle Ages and later merged with Alstaden.	The village of Heiderhöfen was built on the edge of the Alstadener Lehmspreite at a culvert of the Bergische Landwehr . The name is derived from "Höfen in der Heide" and was used until the twentieth century to name the western part of Alstadens. The street Heiderhöfen is often male in the local dialect: the Heiderhöfen . until 1910 Bismarckstrasse
Heidstrasse	Black heather	Named after the local heathland , after which the district is named.
Heiermannsfeld	Muffled	was laid out in the fields of the Heiermannshof
Heimbauweg	Osterfeld	Here, the built Heimbau eGmbH several homes 1950-1955.
Heimfriedweg	Schlad	Heimfried GmbH Oberhausen built several residential buildings here in 1960.
Heimstrasse	Klosterhardt	after the adjacent Ledigenheim the Gutehoffnungshütte named
Heinestrasse	Osterfeld	Heinrich Heine , 1797–1856, poet and writer	formerly between Gildenstrasse and Westfälischer Strasse Schulenstrasse , the rest Bahnstrasse , from 1936 to 1947 Boelckestrasse
Heinrich-Jochem-Platz	Lirich	Heinrich Jochem (1889–1978) was a city councilor of Oberhausen and a resistance fighter .
Heinrich-Lersch-Strasse	Alsfeld	Heinrich Lersch , 1889–1936, writer
Heinrichstrasse	Klosterhardt	Heinrich Arnold Huyssen , industrial pioneer	Name accumulation (Jacobisiedlung: industrial pioneers)
Helenenstrasse	Lirich	arbitrary naming after the female first name	until 1936 Christinenstrasse
Hellberg	Muffled	Farmer Hellberg's farm used to be here .
Hellstrasse	Bermensfeld	"Höhenstraße", probably used to lead to the main terrace of the Rhine.
Helmholtzstrasse	Downtown	Hermann von Helmholtz , 1821–1894, doctor, physicist and inventor	until 1937 Königstraße , until 1945 Rudolf-Heß- Straße
Henri Dunant Way	Downtown	Henri Dunant , 1828–1910, founder of the Red Cross
Henselstrasse	Osterfeld center	Luise Hensel , 1798–1876, poet	until 1935 Mühlenstrasse
Herbertstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	named arbitrarily after the male first name
Herderstrasse	Styrum, Dümpten	Johann Gottfried Herder , 1744–1803, cultural philosopher, historian, esthete and poet
Hermann-Albertz-Strasse	Downtown	Hermann Albertz (1877-1945) was councilor of the city of Oberhausen and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the city council. He was taken into “protective custody” in 1933 and has been missing in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp since 1945 .	until 1947 Moltkestrasse
Sibiu Street	Osterfeld Heath	named after Sibiu in Transylvania	Mainly Transylvania Saxons settled here, who had to leave their homeland after 1945.
Hermannstrasse	Holten	Hermann Tenter lived in a hut here in 1844.
Heroldstrasse	Klosterhardt	named after the heralds	until 1934 Herzogstrasse
Hertastrasse	Osterfeld Heath	named arbitrarily after the female first name	until 1935 Josefstraße (on it is the St. Josef Heide church )
Herzogstrasse	Tackenberg	named after the dukes
Hessenstrasse	Buschhausen	named after the Hessians	Name accumulation (German countries / tribes)
Hiberniastrasse	Alstaden	The Hibernia AG 1904 took over the mine Alstaden .	until 1910 together with Haldenstrasse Schillerstrasse
Hiesfelder Strasse	Schmachtendorf, Alsfeld	named after Hiesfeld
Hildegardstrasse	Sterkrade center	probably in connection with the adjacent St. Josef-Hospital after Holy Hildegard von Bingen named	until 1935 Mariastraße
Hilgenberg	Styrum	"Heiligenberg", probably an elevation with an image of a saint	until 1919 Uhlandstrasse
Back street	Osterfeld center	The road is behind the railway line.
Hirschkampstrasse	Brink	There are two interpretations: "Deer field", a field on which deer have branched "Millet field", a field with millet
Hirschstrasse	Tackenberg	There used to be a lot of deer here .
Hirtenstrasse	Tackenberg	Shepherds probably lived here in the past .
Elevated road	Osterfeld center	increases in the direction Vonderort steeply on the Vonderberg to
Höfmannstrasse	Muffled	was in the fields of the farmers Höfmann created
Höhenweg	Walsumermark, Königshardt	Path at the height of the Rheinhocherrasse	until 1917 Hohe Straße , until 1937 from Königshardter Straße to Buchenweg Moltkestraße
Hönnestrasse	Alstaden	named after the Hönne	Name accumulation ("settlements" in Alstaden near the Ruhr: tributaries of the Ruhr)
Hoffmannstrasse	Osterfeld	For a long time only the Hoffmann family lived here.
Hope Street	Osterfeld Heath	named after the Gutehoffnungshütte	Name accumulation ( settlement Dunkelschlag : reference to Gutehoffnungshütte )
Hofstrasse	Buschhausen	was named after the most important Buschhausener yard, the Buschmannshof named
high Street	Königshardt	leads over the highest elevation of the Königshardt
High ring	Königshardt	branches off from the Hohe Straße and leads back to it in a ring
Holderstrasse	Biefang	possibly after occurring earlier here often Holunderstrauch named	until 1917 in the west (Biefang) Oststraße and in the east (Sterkrade) Weststraße , until 1936 Kleinestraße
Holsteinstrasse	Buschhausen	named after Holstein	Name accumulation (German countries / tribes)
Holten market square	Holten	The Holten fair and the Holten market used to be held here.
Holtener Strasse	Sterkrade center	leads to Holten
Holtkampstrasse	Sterkrade center	named after the Holtkampskotten
Holtstegstrasse	Barmingholten	A footbridge that led through wood.	until 1917 Turmstrasse
Holzstrasse	Holten
Homberger Strasse	Buschhausen	named after Homberg	Name accumulation ( Duisburg districts) until 1935 Mühlenstraße
Horststrasse	Buschhausen	"Bushes, thickets, scrub"
Hospitalstrasse	Sterkrade center	named after the adjoining St. Josef Hospital
Hubertusstrasse	Sterkrade center	Hubertus Neiffer built the first house here and made part of the area available for building the road.
Hill road	Osterfeld Heath	leads through hilly terrain
Hühnerheidestrasse	Schmachtendorf	named after the chicken heather
Chicken Street	Schmachtendorf	named after the chicken heather
Hülskathstrasse	Black heather	Hülskath was a community leader of Biefang .	until 1929 west of Markgrafenstrasse part of Beeckstrasse and east part of Neumühler Strasse
Hünenbergstrasse	Walsumermark	There are several theories: "mountain with giants", "huge mountain", "mountain with chickens"	until 1917 Brinkstrasse
Hünxer Strasse	Buschhausen	named after Hünxe	Many men from Gartrop , Gahlen and Hünxe found work and settled here.
Hütterhardt	Königshardt	old district designation, "Hardt with the hut of a pastoralist"
Hüttestrasse	Osterfeld Heath	named after the Gutehoffnungshütte	Name accumulation ( Stemmersberg settlement : reference to Gutehoffnungshütte )
Hufstrasse	Schmachtendorf	Has the shape of an angular hoof.
Hugo Baum Street	Schlad	in memory of Hugo Baum, the long-time social, youth and sports department head of the city of Oberhausen	Completion and naming in 2014
Hugo-Rasch-Strasse	Bermensfeld	Hugo Rasch , 1913–1960, politician of the SPD
Hugostrasse	Klosterhardt	Hugo Haniel , 1810–1893, entrepreneur
Humboldtstrasse	Downtown	Wilhelm von Humboldt , 1767–1835, scholar, writer and statesman
Hunsrückstrasse	Schlad	named after the Hunsrück , from which many workers moved to the Ruhr area	between Dieckerstrasse and Schladstrasse until 1935 Nootstrasse , between Mellinghofer and Beckerstrasse around 1890 Am End , around 1898 Matzkämperstrasse , from 1900 to 1935 Kampstrasse
Husumer Strasse	Sterkrade center	named after the city of Husum	Name clustering (northern German cities)
Huyssenstrasse	Klosterhardt	Heinrich Arnold Huyssen , 1779–1870, industrial pioneer and entrepreneur at Gutehoffnungshütte	Name accumulation (Jacobisiedlung: industrial pioneers)

I.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Iltisstrasse	Alsfeld	named after the polecat	Accumulation of names (predators)
In the Brahmhof	Osterfeld	led across the fields of Theodor Bramhoff
In Bremerbusch	Alsfeld	old forest name
In the Fuhlenbrock	Klosterhardt	Border road between Oberhausen and Fuhlenbrock	formerly forest road
In the parish grounds	Walsumermark	The area was previously shared.
In the Handbachtal	Königshardt	lies in the valley of the Handbach
In the Heeck	Schmachtendorf	"Remote forest property" or "district of a forester / forest ranger"
In the heather field	Alstaden	named after a cadastral designation from 1863 ( the lower Styrumer Heidefeld )
In the hut bush	Tackenberg	There used to be a forest here, popularly called Hüttenbusch after the neighboring Gutehoffnungshütte .
In the Kreuzfeld	Sterkrade center	very old hallway name	until 1935 Peterstrasse
In the Lipperfeld	new middle	The Lipperfeld used to be in the middle of the Lipper Heide .
In the source base	Walsumermark	There is a source horizon here .
In the sand	Alstaden
In the Steinhaidchen	Walsumermark	Großsteinhaidchen is an old field name, it goes back to moraine rubble with boulders.
In the longwall	Alstaden	Named after the longwall face .	Name accumulation (settlement at the Alstaden colliery : reference to mining)
In Torfveen	Walsumermark	boggy area that forms layers of peat
In the Wiedemhof	Osterfeld	“Farm belonging to the parish” was the name given to the rectory of the Catholic parish of St. Pankratius
Immenstrasse	Walsumermark	Named after the Immenhöfken , part of the Walsumer Hardt. The area offered bees ( Immen ) the opportunity to collect honey pollen.
In the mats fought	Muffled	old cadastral designation
In the Emscheraue	Buschhausen	lies in a floodplain of the Emscher
In the Sandgathe	Borbeck	"Narrow, sandy passage"
In the Wies	Schmachtendorf	old brand name
Industriestrasse	Osterfeld Heath	In connection with the Gutehoffnungshütte
Ingelstrasse	Buschhausen	"Ingel" was probably the owner of extensive land in Buschhausen.
Ingridstrasse	Alsfeld	named arbitrarily after the female first name
Island road	Sterkrade center	In the past there were some hollows in the area that filled with water in rainy times, so that the elevations protruded like islands.

J

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Jacobistrasse	Klosterhardt	Gottlob Jacobi , 1770–1823, entrepreneur and co-founder of the Gutehoffnungshütte , the Jacobi colliery on the road is named after him.	Name accumulation (Jacobisiedlung: industrial pioneers)
Jaegerstrasse	Alsfeld	Named after the profession of hunter in relation to the nearby Sterkrad Forest .	until 1936 Schützenstrasse
Hunting route	Bermensfeld	reminds of the Jägersküpper peasant cottages destroyed in the war
Jahnstrasse	Sterkrade center	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , 1778–1852, "gymnastics father"
Jakob-Plum-Strasse	Rothebusch	Jakob Plum, 1879–1954, for many years head of the Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbau eG , a building cooperative in Osterfeld, which had its offices on this street.	1936–1954 Gorch-Fock-Strasse ( Gorch Fock )
Jakobstrasse	Buschhausen	named arbitrarily after the male first name
Johannes-Kampert-Strasse	Downtown	Johannes Kampert (1889–1975) was pastor at Herz Jesu from 1925 to 1965 and was an enemy of National Socialism .	Kampert had already warned of National Socialism before the seizure of power and later helped many persecuted. In 1945 he became the dean of Alt-Oberhausen, in 1958 the first Oberhausen city dean. He was also an honorary canon.
Johanniterstrasse	Sterkrade center	named after the adjacent Johanniter hospital in Oberhausen
Johann-Schäfer-Strasse	Schlad	Johann Schäfer was a miller in the Dümpter Heide until 1915, who worked as an unpaid city councilor.
Josefstrasse	Styrum	The street is by the Catholic Church of St. Joseph.	The Josephskirche is written with “ph” , the Josefstraße however with “f” .
John Lennon Square	Marienviertel	John Lennon , 1940–1980, British rock musician and exponent of the anti-Vietnam war movement	until 1991 Graf-Haeseler-Platz , after Field Marshal Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler , who attended a celebration here in 1911.
Julius-Brecht-Anger	Walsumermark	Julius Brecht, 1900–1962, chairman of the general association of non-profit housing cooperatives, initiator and promoter of social housing

K

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Kärntener Strasse	Muffled	shortly after the annexation of Austria by Carinthia named	Name clustering
Kaisersfeld	Muffled	was in a field of Kaiser cotta applied	until 1936 Lanterstraße
Kalkstrasse	Black heather	A lime distillery was located here until around 1900.
Kallen	Alstaden	old hall name ("auf der Kallen"), means "water channel, street channel"	formerly part of Hiberniastraße
Kampstrasse	Osterfeld center	"Kamp" means field.
Canal Street	Osterfeld center	to the neighboring Rhein Herne channel named
Kantstrasse	Sterkrade center	Immanuel Kant , 1724–1804, philosopher	until 1903 connecting road
Kapellenstrasse	Osterfeld center	The Joseph Chapel stood here until 1930 .
Kaplan-Küppers-Weg	Styrum	Heinrich Küppers (1896–1955) was chaplain at St. Joseph in Styrum from 1929 to 1945 and a staunch opponent of National Socialism . He was imprisoned several times between 1933 and 1943 and finally taken to Dachau concentration camp , where he stayed until 1945.	until 1910 Kirchstraße , until 1956 Leostraße
Kaplan-Mertens-Weg	Schmachtendorf	Matthias Mertens (1906–1970) was chaplain at St. Josef from 1935 to 1947 and a staunch opponent of National Socialism . He was taken to Dachau concentration camp in 1942 , where he stayed until 1945.	until 1985 Gregorstrasse
Karl-Peters-Strasse	Borbeck	Karl Peters , 1856–1918, Africa researcher and colonial politician, founder of German East Africa	until 1936 Huyssenstrasse
Karl-Steinhauer-Strasse	Schlad	Karl Steinhauer (1852-1934) was the municipal music director in Oberhausen from 1901 to 1921. He was a conductor, organizer and composer.	until 1937 between Falkensteinstrasse and Virchowstrasse Körnerstrasse , between Virchowstrasse and Straßburger Strasse Turmstrasse
Karlstrasse	Sterkrade center	arbitrary naming after the male first name	Name clustering
Karolinenstrasse	Lirich	Johann Uhlenbruck built this street together with the Bonmann family in 1905. Therefore, it was named after his wife.
Kastanienweg	Lirich	after the chestnut named	Name clustering
Kastellstrasse	Holten	Named after the neighboring Fort Holten , which was mentioned for the first time in 1188.	until 1937 north of Wasserstraße Schloßstraße , south Langestraße
Katharinenstrasse	Lirich	Katharina Krüßmann had made great contributions to the construction of the first Katharinenkirche through donations.
Kathstrasse	Holten	leads to the Alberskath
Cat break	Bermensfeld	old corridor designation, here came "Cats mush" called horsetails ago	until 1915 Weststrasse
Kellenbergstrasse	Sterkrade center	named after the Kellenbergkotten	until 1929 Kasernenstrasse
Celtic road	Styrum	named after the Celts	Name clustering
Kempener Strasse	Schmachtendorf	named after Kempen	Name clustering
Kempkenstrasse	Schmachtendorf	named after the Kempken farm	until 1917 Wilhelmstrasse
Kettelerstrasse	Osterfeld center	Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler , 1811–1877, bishop of Mainz and known as the workers' bishop	until 1934 Kreuzstraße , until 1946 Admiral-von-Schröder-Straße
Kettwiger Strasse	Bermensfeld	named after Kettwig
Kewerstrasse	Alstaden	Ludolf Kewer (1857–1923) was the first and only mayor of Alstaden from 1904 to 1910. He threaded the incorporation of Alstadens into Oberhausen.	until 1910 Wilhelmstrasse
Kickenbergstrasse	Osterfeld center	old cadastral designation, "mountain from which one can see far"	until 1936 Zwischenstrasse
Lapwing Street	Black heather	after the lapwings named
Pine road	Walsumermark	after the jaw named	Tannenstrasse until 1917
Kieler Strasse	Sterkrade center	named after the north German city of Kiel	Name clustering
Kiepenfeld	Alstaden	was laid out in the fields of the Kiepenhof
Gravel road	Osterfeld Heath	There is a lot of gravel here .
Gravel path	Walsumermark	There is a lot of gravel here .	until 1917 sand road
Kirchhellener Strasse	Königshardt, Tackenberg	leads to Kirchhellen
Kirchhofstrasse	Schmachtendorf	is located at the cemetery of the Catholic parish of St. Josef, built in 1902	until 1917 Friedhofstrasse
Kirchstrasse	Osterfeld center	leads to the Pankratiuskirche
Kiwittenberg	Alstaden	There used to be a lot of lapwing here . Either their call (which sounds like “Kiwitt, kiwitt!”) Or the Low German name ( Kiwitt ) led to the street name.	until 1919 Viktoriastraße
Klarastrasse	Lirich	named arbitrarily after the female first name	Name clustering
Klaumer break	Borbeck	old hallway name	until 1934 Jacobistraße
Kleekampstrasse	Königshardt	Named after the Kleekamp settlement in the northeast of Königshardt, whose name is derived from a field on which clover grew as food for livestock.
Kleestrasse	Black heather	Clover grew in the neighboring fields as food for livestock.
Kleiberweg	Königshardt	named after the nuthatch	Name clustering
Small Biefangstrasse	Black heather	see Biefangstrasse
Small leaf road	Alstaden	see Blattstrasse
Little Bronkhorststrasse	Sterkrade center	see Bronkhorststrasse	the construction of the highway from the Bronkhorststraße separated
Kleine Eichelkampstrasse	Sterkrade center	see Eichelkampstrasse
Small Hülskathstrasse	Biefang	see Hülskathstrasse
Little Kluckstrasse	Alstaden	see Kluckstrasse
Small market	Sterkrade center	The small market has been the central focus of the citizens since Sterkrad's existence.
Small street	Klosterhardt	It's a small street.
Kleiststrasse	Schlad	Heinrich von Kleist , 1777–1811, dramatic poet
Klörenstrasse	Styrum	The master mason Klören built the first houses here.
Klopstockstrasse	Styrum	Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , 1724–1803, poet
Klosterhardter Strasse	Klosterhardt	crosses Klosterhardt in an east-west direction
Klosterstrasse	Sterkrade center	named after the Sterkrade monastery, which was adjacent from 1254 to 1969	from 1937 to 1945 Admiral-Hipper-Strasse
Kluckstrasse	Alstaden	Alexander von Kluck , 1846–1934, Colonel General in the First World War
Knappenstrasse	Knappenviertel	" Knappe " is a name for a miner. The miners reached the Oberhausen colliery from what is now the Knappenviertel via this street .
Kniestrasse	Osterfeld Heath	The street looks like a knee on city maps.
Koburger Strasse	Sterkrade center	by Coburg named	until 1936 Gertrudstrasse
Koenigsberger Strasse	Knappenviertel	reminds of the first colliery in the Ruhr area, the Koenigsberg colliery , which later became the Oberhausen colliery
Koenigshardter Strasse	Königshardt	named after Königshardt himself	around 1852 Kellenbergstrasse , until 1929 north of the Höhenweg Roonstrasse , between Ebersbachstrasse and Pfalzgrafenstrasse Eckstrasse , the short spur road behind the high-rise on Höhenweg Querstrasse
Koenigstrasse	Biefang	Reference to the Prussian royal house	around 1734 Biefanger Strasse
Köperstrasse	Alsfeld	The road was laid out in the fields of the landowner Köper.
Körnerstrasse	Marienviertel	Theodor Körner , 1791–1813, poet and freedom singer	until 1934 between Martin- Lutherstrasse and Brückorstrasse Heidstrasse
Kostersfeld	Walsumermark	was laid out in the fields of the Köster family
Kolberger Strasse	Alsfeld	reminds of the siege of Kolberg in 1807	Name accumulation until 1936 Gneisenaustraße
Kolkmannstrasse	Biefang	named after the Kolkmannshof located here	until 1937 Wiesenstrasse
Kolpingstrasse	Sterkrade center	Sel. Adolph Kolping , 1813–1865, priest and founder of the Kolping Society	Kanalstrasse until 1934 , Yorkstrasse until 1947
Konradstrasse	Lirich	named arbitrarily after the male first name	Name clustering
Konrad-Adenauer-Allee		Konrad Adenauer , 1876–1967, first Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany	until 1892 Düsseldorf-Münstersche-Provinzialstraße , until 1993 Sterkrader Straße
Kopernikusstrasse	Walsumermark	Nikolaus Kopernikus , 1473–1543, astronomer and canon, founder of the heliocentric worldview
Koppenburgstrasse	Rothebusch, Osterfeld	Pankratz Koppenburg operated a mill on this street.
Kottenstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	reminds of several smaller peasant holdings that were called Kotten
Crow Street	Königshardt	named after the crows	Name clustering
Kramtsweg	Walsumermark	Digs bird is another name of Fieldfare . These birds were quite common here.
Kranichweg	Tackenberg	named after the crane
Krefelder Strasse	Schmachtendorf	named after Krefeld
Kreuzbergweg	Marienviertel	There used to be an old heather cross on a hill on the Lipper Heide .
Kreuzstrasse	Lirich	The Kreuzstrasse originally ran over today's Westfriedhof, in the middle of which there used to be a high cross.	earlier To the high cross
Krimhildstrasse	Buschhausen	named after the legendary figure Krimhild	Name clustering
Kronstadtstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	Named after the Transylvanian city of Kronstadt , which bore this name until 1950. Many displaced Transylvanian Saxons settled on this street after 1945.
Crooked road	Holten	runs in an arch between Wasserstrasse and Mechthildisstrasse	formerly Bellweyerstraße
Artist place	new middle
Küperstrasse	Holten	originally a private road laid out by Heinrich Küper to his house
Cool	Alstaden	The street led through Wippermanns Ziegelkuhle , where bricks were burned.	until 1910 Bruchstrasse
Kuhlenweide	Osterfeld Heath	Former brick hollow where the farmer's pastures lay on Friday
Cow path	Holten, Biefang	named after the Kuhgraben , a small stream
Kulmer Strasse	Tackenberg	named after the former German town of Kulm
Kurfürstenstrasse	Holten, Biefang	Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm , 1620–1688, sovereign of Holten and Biefang	formerly Leichenweg , until 1917 in the Holten (Biefang) Markgrafenstraße
Kyffhäuserstraße	Black heather	named after the mountain Kyffhäuser

L.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Lärchenstrasse	Walsumermark	after the larches named	Name accumulation until 1917 Karlstrasse
Landwehr	Alstaden, Styrum	The Bergische Landwehr was established here in the Middle Ages , offering protection from attacks by robbers and soldiers. The Landwehr consisted of two to three densely overgrown and therefore insurmountable walls with hornbeams and willows, black and hawthorns and dog roses.	formerly between Nohlstrasse and Mülheimer Strasse Alte Heid Strasse
Langemarkstrasse	Downtown	In Langemark found in the First World War , the First Battle of Ypres instead.	until 1935 Breitestrasse
Langenbergstrasse	Holten	Heinrich Langenberg (1881–1950) was a member of the board of the non-profit housing association Sterkrade .
Langwegstrasse	Klosterhardt	Werner Langweg (1863-1940) was the first bailiff of Osterfeld. He led Osterfeld on the way to becoming an independent city.
Lanterstrasse	Buschhausen	Here were the fields that belonged to the Lantermannshof .	until 1909 west of Friesenstrasse Leihstrasse , east of Lanterstrasse
Lattenkampstrasse	Buschhausen	leads through the fields of the farmer Lattenkamp .
Leafy road	Alsfeld	is related to the adjacent forest
Leberstrasse	Biefang	Julius Leber , 1891–1945, journalist and politician of the SPD , resistance fighter and involved in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 , executed in 1945 in Berlin-Plötzensee
Single Street	Klosterhardt	is located at the single home of Gutehoffnungshütte
Lehmbachstrasse	Buschhausen	The Nordbeeck , a brook that carried clay-clouded water, used to flow here.
Lehmbergstrasse	Sterkrade center	Here was the Lehmbergshof .
Leibnizstrasse	Buschhausen	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , 1646–1716, philosopher, researcher, historian and lawyer
Lembecker Strasse	Osterfeld center	Lembeck is a town in the Münsterland that has been in the possession of the Lords of Westerholt since 1526, who also owned larger estates in Osterfeld and Oberhausen.
Lenaustraße	Alstaden	Nikolaus Lenau , 1802–1850, poet	until 1937 Lessingstraße , until 1945 Wilhelm-Loeper-Straße ( Wilhelm Loeper )
Lennestrasse	Alstaden	named after the Lenne , probably in relation to the nearby Ruhr
Leopoldstrasse	Lirich	named arbitrarily after the male first name	Name accumulation until 1934 Grabenstraße , until 1945 Leo-Kausch-Straße
Lepkesfeld	Muffled	leads through the fields of the Lepkeshof
Lessingstrasse	Buschhausen	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , 1729–1781, poet and theologian
Leuthenstrasse	Black heather	reminds of the battle of Leuthen
Leutweinstrasse	Rothebusch	Theodor Leutwein , 1849–1921, commander of the German protection forces in German South West Africa during the Herero uprising	until 1936 Marienstraße and Querstraße
Lickenberg	Alstaden	old hallway name. There are several interpretations: light mountain , in the sense of "mountain with a clearing, little overgrown mountain": This would apply to the area on the southern edge of the Alstadener Heide. Leichenberg : In connection with the neighboring cemetery, laid out in 1905.	until 1910 Schulstraße (named after the Ruhrschule)
Lickumstrasse	Walsumermark	"Clearing"
Liebknechtstrasse	Marienviertel	Wilhelm Liebknecht , 1826–1900, one of the founders of the SPD	until 1934 Feldstraße , until 1947 Richthofenstraße
Lilienstraße	Alstaden	arbitrary naming probably after the old name Rosenstraße (until 1910)
Lilienthalstrasse	Osterfeld center	Otto Lilienthal , 1848–1896, aviation pioneer	until 1937 connecting road
Lindenplatz	Schmachtendorf	Square with linden trees
Lindermannstrasse	Alstaden	Wilhelm Lindermann (1856–1909) was a long-time mayor of Alstaden.	until 1910 Schützenstraße , until 1937 Lindnerstraße
Lindgensstrasse	Holten	named after the owners of the Heckmannshof , the Lindgens family	until 1937 Luisenstrasse
Lindnerstrasse	Buschhausen	Gustav Adolf Lindner , 1828–1887, Czech teacher	until 1963 in the eastern part of Grafenbuschstrasse
Linsingenstrasse	Downtown	named after the noble family Linsingen	The street used to be called Streitstraße , but was then renamed Eintrachtstraße in response to local residents' complaints . In 1914, however, prostitution began on the lower part , which is why the upper part was renamed Flaßhofstrasse . By order of the district president, the brothel business was closed in 1922 and the lower part of Flaßhofstrasse was also assigned. But when the brothel business revived, the upper part was renamed Linsingenstrasse in 1938 .
Lipperheidstrasse	Marienviertel	The town of Oberhausen was laid out in the Lipper Heide like a chessboard.
Lipperstrasse	Marienviertel	Named after the Lipper Heide through which it passed.	around 1869 Alte Lipperstrasse and Heitkamps-Weg
Liricher Strasse	Lirich	The street leads through Lirich , one of the two nucleus of the city of Oberhausen.
Loensstrasse	Walsumermark	Hermann Löns , 1866–1914, poet and writer	until 1917 Moritzstrasse
Lohfeldstrasse	Holten	The area through which the road leads is called Lohfeld ("field with low wood, bushes").
Lohstrasse	Schlad	old field name ( in't Loh ), here were oak trees from which the bark ("Loh") was peeled off in order to use it as a tanning agent.
Lorenzstrasse	Styrum	arbitrary naming after the male first name	Name accumulation until 1910 Körnerstraße
Losenstrasse	Walsumermark	leads through the fields of the landowner Losen	until 1917 Erlenstrasse
Lotharstrasse	Bermensfeld	arbitrary naming after the male first name	Name clustering
Lothringer Strasse	Downtown, Styrum	in connection with the Alsatian road to Lorraine named	in Styrum until 1910 Heidestrasse
Lynx Street	Alsfeld	after the lynx named	before the expansion of the Fuchsweg road
Ludwigstrasse	Styrum	Ludwig Heitbrink built the first house here.
Luebecker Strasse	Alsfeld	after the northern German city of Luebeck named
Luegstrasse	Klosterhardt	Wilhelm Lueg , 1792–1864, industrial pioneer	Name clustering
Liège Street	Schmachtendorf	named after Liège	until 1917 Gudrunstraße and Krimhildstraße
Lützowstrasse	Holten	Adolf von Lützow , 1782–1834, Prussian equestrian officer and founder of the Lützow Freikorps . In memory of Prussian hunters who were billeted in Holten during the Wars of Liberation .
Luisenstrasse	Lirich	Queen Luise of Prussia, 1776–1810, wife of Friedrich Wilhelm III. , recognized for their personal simplicity and national consciousness
Luise-Albertz-Platz	new middle	Luise Albertz (1901–1979) was an Oberhausen politician of the SPD and from 1946 to 1948 and for the second time from 1956 to 1975 mayor of Oberhausen.

M.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Märkische Strasse	Osterfeld center	named after the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn	until 1936 Wallstrasse
Malmedystrasse	Königshardt	Malmedy had to be ceded to Belgium in 1914.
Malt Street	Osterfeld	The Malzfabrok Röttgen was located here until the Second World War
Margaretenstrasse	Lirich	named arbitrarily after the female first name	until 1933 Ackerstraße
Marienburgstrasse	Knappenviertel	named after the Marienburg	until 1934 Hüttenstrasse
Markgrafenstrasse	Black heather	after the Marquis named	Name clustering
Osterfeld market square	Osterfeld center	The market square forms the center of Osterfeld. The first weekly market took place in 1870, and the market square was laid out in 1890.
Market street	Downtown	Main shopping street of Alt-Oberhausen
Markusstrasse	Sterkrade center	named after St. Mark
Marthastrasse	Sterkrade center	named arbitrarily after the female first name
Martin-Heix-Platz	Styrum	Martin Heix (1903–1977) played a key role in the reconstruction of the city of Oberhausen after the Second World War. He was a trade unionist, a workers secretary in the Catholic labor movement and a politician for the CDU. From 1949 to 1956 he was a member of the Bundestag.	Friedenstrasse until 1910 , Josefplatz until 1977
Martin-Luther-Strasse	Marienviertel	Martin Luther , 1483–1546, reformer	until 1934 Karlstrasse
Martinstrasse	Schmachtendorf	named after St. Martin of Tours	until 1917 Hüttenstrasse
Matthias-Hendricks-Weg	Alstaden	Matthias Hendricks (1885–1984) was the founder of the Bürgerring Alstaden 1950 eV and chairman for many years.
Mathildenstrasse	Alsfeld	named arbitrarily after the female first name	Name clustering
Mattlerstrasse	Holten	The Mattlers were an old, local noble family from which several castle men of Fort Holten emerged .	until 1917 Friedhofstrasse
Matzenbergstrasse	Königshardt	Probably derived from the Matzenberg in the Palatinate , from which the first Königshardt settlers came.
Max-Eyth-Strasse	Buschhausen	Max Eyth , 1836–1906, writer and technician	until 1937 Südoberhausener Strasse
Max Planck Ring	new middle	Max Planck , 1858–1947, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Maxstrasse	Tackenberg	in connection with the neighboring Moritzstraße after the story Max and Moritz named	Name clustering
Maybachstrasse	Alstaden	Wilhelm Maybach , 1846–1929, designer of motor vehicles	Name clustering
Mechthildisstrasse	Holten	Mechthild von Holte (1225–1301), known as a great benefactress and founder of the monastery in Sterkrade	formerly behind the wall , until 1935 Kirchstrasse
Mecklenburger Strasse	Black Heath, Buschhausen	named after Mecklenburg	formerly Spinozastraße , accumulation of names
Meisenstrasse	Walsumermark	named after the titmouse	until 1917 Bussardstrasse , name accumulation
Mellinghofer Strasse	Muffled	led to the old residential area in Mellinghofen
Mellisstrasse	Bermensfeld	reminiscent of the Mellis Kotten	until 1915 Sophienstrasse
Memelstrasse	Klosterhardt	after Memel named
Mergelkuhle	Walsumermark	Clay ("marl") used to be mined here, creating kools.
Marl Street	Osterfeld center	leads through an area with calcareous clay ("marl")
Metzgerstrasse	Lirich	The city slaughterhouse was built here in 1891.
Michalidesstrasse	Rothebusch	Karl Michalides was the first pastor at St. Pankratius and probably the initiator of the construction of the Marienkirche in Rothebusch.
Michelstrasse	Osterfeld-Mitte, Rothebusch	reminds of the old Michel am Walde farm
Middlesbroughstrasse	new middle	Middlesbrough has been a twin town of Oberhausen since 1974.
Mittelstrasse	Holten	is in the middle of Alt-Holten
Möhnestrasse	Alstaden	named after the Möhne (probably in connection with the Ruhr near the settlement )	Name clustering
Mörikestrasse	Alstaden	Eduard Mörike , 1804–1875, poet and writer	until 1910 Goebenstraße , until 1936 Timpenstraße unusual numbering: there are house numbers 29, 38, 42 and 44.
Moosstrasse	Buschhausen	named after the moss
Moritzstrasse	Tackenberg	in connection with the neighboring Maxstraße after the story Max and Moritz named	Name clustering
Mozartstrasse	Sterkrade center	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , 1756–1791, an important classical composer
Mühlenhof	Muffled	Named after the courtyard-like grouping of the houses and the neighboring Mühlenstrasse
Mühlenstrasse	Muffled	used to lead to the Lepkesmühle
Mülheimer Strasse	Downtown, Styrum, Dümpten	leads to Mülheim an der Ruhr	until 1892 in Düsseldorf-Münstersche Provinzialstraße , until 1910 in Styrum Oberhausener Straße
Münzstrasse	Tackenberg	named after a previous landowner
Muldenstrasse	Sterkrade center	leads into a shallow trough
Musfeldstrasse	Klosterhardt	named after the landowner Gerhard Musfeld
Music way	new middle	Here is the Metronom Theater .

N

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Nassenkampstrasse	Schmachtendorf	"Wet field": A field that was and is insufficiently drained by the Nassenkampgraben brook .	very narrow street, sometimes only a footpath until 1917 Baustraße
Nathlandstrasse	Bermensfeld	"Wet land", based on the Nathlandbach , which used to flow here	until 1915 Kahrstrasse
Back road	Rothebusch	insignificant street, not a main street	just a footpath
Carnation Street	Lirich	arbitrarily by the cloves named	Name clustering
Nettelbeckstrasse	Alsfeld	Joachim Nettelbeck , 1738–1824, citizen adjutant in the siege of Kolberg in 1807	Name clustering
New way	Alstaden	old cadastral designation "in the new field"	until 1910 Meidericher Strasse
Neugahlener Strasse	Black heather	Named after Gahlen . Many men from the area around Gallen have found work in Sterkrade.	Name clustering
Neuköllner Strasse	Walsumermark	leads to the Neuköln farmers' association in the north of Oberhausen
Neumarkt	Sterkrade center	In 1939 the Neumarkt was set up as a new, larger counterpart to the smaller Großer Markt.
Neumühler Strasse	Black heather	used to lead to Neumühl	business center of the Black Heath
Neustraße	Schmachtendorf	literally a "new road"
Niebuhrstrasse	Lirich	Barthold Georg Niebuhr , 1776–1831, historian, statesman and minister
Nierfeldweg	Bermensfeld	old cadastral designation Nierfeld
Nikolaus-Groß-Strasse	Klosterhardt	Nikolaus Groß , 1898–1920, resistance fighter
Nohlstrasse	Downtown, Styrum	Max Nohl , 1830–1863, builder of the Christ Church	until 1910 in the Styrum part of Goethestrasse
Norbertstrasse	Schmachtendorf	arbitrary naming after the male first name
North ramp	Sterkrade center	Ramp-like street to connect Flensburger and Hamburger Strasse with Brüderstrasse
North street	Königshardt	is located in the north of the city
Normannenstrasse	Downtown	by the Normans named	Cäcilienstraße until 1936
Nürnberger Strasse	Osterfeld center	named under the National Socialists after Nuremberg and the Nuremberg Laws passed there	until 1937 at Klosterstrasse and north of Westfälische Strasse Gasstrasse

O

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Oberbruch	Borbeck	is located in the area of the Great Klaumer break and is in line with the earlier interruption named
Obere Brüderstrasse	Sterkrade center	see Brüderstraße	until 1961 part of the Brüderstraße , separated by the construction of the motorway
Oberförster-Hoffmann-Weg	Sterkrade	Chief forester Hoffmann (1902–1965) administered the Sterkrader Forest as a forester from 1951 until his death
Obermeidericher Strasse	Alstaden	formerly the border road between Alstaden and Obermeiderich
Odenwaldstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	Odenwald
Ear field	Alstaden	ancient cadastral designation ( on the ear field ), possibly once the name of a residential area . There are different interpretations: Reinterpretation of the wheat field Named after the found here "Urgrund, Ohrgrund", lawn iron stone "Maple field"	around 1823 in the west Kreuzstrasse , in the east already earsfelds Weg , until 1910 Styrumer Strasse
Olbergsholz	Walsumermark	dialect modification of the name Eulerich , ie a small forest ("wood") that belonged to the settler Adolf Eulerich	until 1928 Karlstrasse
Olbergsweg	Walsumermark	see Olbergsholz	until 1917 part of Heidstrasse
Oldenburger Strasse	Black Heath, Buschhausen	Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
Olgastrasse	Sterkrade center	arbitrary names by first name	until 1936 Klarastraße , accumulation of street names after first names in the area
Oranienstrasse	Schmachtendorf	The House of Orange provided the King of the Netherlands since 1815 . The road is located directly on the Oberhausen arterial road to the north and thus in the direction of the Netherlands. The name Oranienstrasse was intended to express the bond with the neighboring country.	until 1937 Rolandstraße , until 1945 Hans-Schemm-Straße ( Hans Schemm )
Oskarstrasse	Sterkrade center	arbitrary names by first name	Accumulation of street names after first names in the area
Osterfelder Strasse	Osterfeld	leads from Alt-Oberhausen to Osterfeld	until 1936 Emscherstraße
Ostmarkstrasse	Rothebusch	"Ostmark" was the name for Austria during the Nazi era	until 1937 Neustraße
East ramp	Sterkrade center	here in 1896 the heaped up, ramp-like road to the railway bridge at the Sterkrad train station was laid
Ottilienstraße	Lirich	arbitrary naming by first name	Tannenwegstraße until 1929 , accumulation of street names after first names in the area
Otto-Dibelius-Strasse	Downtown	Otto Dibelius , 1880–1967, a leader in the professing church during the Nazi era	until 1934 Mauerstraße , until 1945 Admiral-Scheer-Straße ( Reinhard Scheer )
Otto-Roelen-Strasse	Holten	Otto Roelen , 1898–1993, scientist and chemist at Ruhrchemie in Holten	until 1994 Bruchstrasse
Otto-Weddigen-Strasse	Sterkrade center	Otto Weddigen , 1882–1915, submarine commander	until 1936 Thalstrasse

P

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Pacelli place	Downtown	Eugenio Pacelli was born in 1939 as Pius XII. Pope of the Catholic Church	to 2012 part of the Old Market Square to the proposal of the pastor at Sacred Heart in Pacelliplatz , renamed as the neighboring Pacellistraße after born there Christoph Schlingensief was named (see Christoph Schlingensief-Street )
Parallel street	Lirich	runs parallel to the Oberhausen-Duisburg-Ruhrort railway line	formerly Düsseldorfer Strasse , 1936–1947 Lettow-Vorbeck-Strasse ( Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck )
Parkstrasse	Sterkrade center	is located at the Sterkrader Volkspark	until 1933 between Brandenburger Strasse and Hildegardstrasse: Bergstrasse
Paul-Reusch-Strasse	Downtown	Paul Reusch , 1869–1956, entrepreneur, enemy of the National Socialists	until 1933 Industriestrasse
Paulsenstrasse	Buschhausen	Friedrich Paulsen , 1846–1908, philosopher	until 1930 part of Jacobstrasse
Pestalozzistrasse	Buschhausen	Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , 1749–1827, educator
Peterplatz	Alstaden	neighboring Peterskirche
Peterstrasse	Alstaden	neighboring Peterskirche
Pfälzerstrasse	Königshardt	The first settlers in Königshardt were Protestants who had left the Palatinate , See also : Königshardt
Pfalzgrafenstrasse	Walsumermark, Königshardt		until 1934 between Höhenweg and Königshardter Straße Hardtstraße , then Grenzstraße
Pfandhöferstrasse	Tackenberg
Arrow road	Walsumermark	arbitrary naming without meaning	until 1917 Grundstrasse
Pilgrimage route	Black heather	reminds of the pilgrimages to Sterkrade monastery since 1764
Good Hope Square	new middle	reminds of the Gutehoffnungshütte , which had its works here until the 1990s
Pollsenweg	Schmachtendorf		until 1917 Jahnstrasse
Pommernstrasse	Buschhausen
Pompstrasse	Styrum	named after Rector Pomp, who took care of the first emergency church in Styrum in 1862
Poznan Street	Sterkrade
Poststrasse	Downtown	at the post office	1934–1945 Von-Papen-Strasse ( Franz von Papen )
Post	Sterkrade	old mail route, on which carriages carried mail from the southern areas to Wesel and Münster as early as the 16th century	until 1933 Friedhofstrasse
Pothmannsweg	Knappenviertel
Potsdamer Strasse	Sterkrade center
Prälat-Wirtz-Strasse	Schlad
Preussenstrasse	Black heather
Court of priests	Muffled
Prinzenstrasse	Walsumermark
promenade	new middle
Propst-Denkhoff-Weg	Sterkrade center
Prosperstrasse	Klosterhardt
Puettstrasse	Alstaden

Q

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Source road	Borbeck	There was once a headwaters in the former Emscherbruch near Dellwig . These springs have dried up or seeped away due to the dredging of the Rhine-Herne Canal .

R.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Rabenstrasse	Schmachtendorf	There used to be a lot of ravens here .
Ramgestrasse	Sterkrade center	Rudolf Ramge (1894–1944) was a senior commercial teacher at the municipal vocational school in Oberhausen and a city councilor for the SPD . He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He has been missing since then.	until 1929 Grünstraße , until 1936 Zur-Nieden-Straße , until 1946 Immelmannstraße
Rathenauplatz	Biefang	Walter Rathenau , 1867–1922, Reich Minister for Reconstruction and later for Foreign Policy, signatory of the Rapallo Treaty . In 1922 he was the victim of an anti-Semitic smear campaign and murdered by nationalists.	until 1947 Königplatz
Vine Road	Biefang	arbitrarily after the vine named
Arithmetic field	Alstaden	old field name, indicates grain fields where the grain was raked together with rakes	until 1910 Flurstrasse
Reener Street	Osterfeld Heath	Named after the city of Reen in Transylvania . After 1945, many expelled Transylvanian Saxons settled here.
Rehmer	Alstaden	old field name ("am Rehmer"), indicates a wooded area	around 1823 on the Rehmer , until 1910 on Kirchstrasse
Reiherstrasse	Alsfeld	The heron probably lived here in the past .
Reinikering	Alsfeld	in relation to the nearby forest to Reinike , the mythical name for the fox named
Reinersstrasse	Sterkrade center	named after the flowing past Reiner stream , which in turn according to the Reinershof is named
Reinholdstrasse	Alstaden	for the Holy Reinhold named	until 1929 Stephanstraße
Reuterstrasse	Styrum	Fritz Reuter , 1810–1874, Low German poet
Revierstrasse	Königshardt	leads into the Abelheide forest area , which used to be a demarcated hunting district ("Revier")
Rheinische Strasse	Osterfeld	is located on the Rheinische Eisenbahnlinie, opened in 1886	until 1993 in the southern part of Hummelstrasse
Rhenaniastrasse	Lirich	named after Rhenania AG , which opened a sulfuric acid factory in Oberhausen in 1852
Richard-Dehmel-Strasse	Klosterhardt	Richard Dehmel , 1863–1920, poet
Richardstrasse	Alstaden	named arbitrarily after the male first name
Richard-Wagner-Allee	Osterfeld Heath	Richard Wagner , 1813–1883, poet composer
Giant street	Tackenberg	in connection with the neighboring Goliathstrasse
Ring road	Klosterhardt	Side street to Langwegstraße, which leads back to this in an arc
Ripsdörnestrasse	Rothebusch	old field name Riebsdörne , a forest that belonged to a rich man and was overgrown with a lot of thorny undergrowth
Ripshorster Street	Bermensfeld, Borbeck	runs through the Ribhorster field , the field that the house Ripshorst belonged	until 1915 Osterfelder Strasse
Ritterstrasse	Sterkrade center	Carl Ritter , 1779-1859, geographer
Robert-Bosch-Strasse	Holten	Robert Bosch , 1861–1942, inventor
Robert-Koch-Strasse	Sterkrade center	Robert Koch , 1843–1910, doctor and bacteriologist	until 1935 Josefstrasse
Robert Schumann Way	Alsfeld	Robert Schumann , 1810–1856, composer and conductor
Roman road	Styrum	The road is close to the Bergische Landwehr , which provided protection from raids by robbers and soldiers. It used to be believed that the Landwehr was built by the Romans , hence the name of the street.
Roggenstrasse	Holten	led to Roggenkamp , a field on which rye grew
Rolanddamm	Downtown	reminds of the nearby dump of the Roland colliery
Rolandsfeld	Muffled	The field originally belonged to the farmer Roland.
Rolandstrasse	Schlad, Dümpten	formerly led to the Roland colliery
Rombacher Strasse	Lirich	The street name goes back to a plan from 1914 to unite Concordia-Bergbau AG with the Rombacher Hüttenwerke from Rombach in Lorraine . This plan was stopped by the First World War .	until 1892 Schlachthofstraße , until 1936 Schachtstraße
Romgesweg	Alstaden	old district ("am Romges"); in the old Berg is dialect rame, rome for metal or ore. Probably one found earlier here much bog iron .
Roncallistraße	Marienviertel	John XXIII , real name Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli , 1881–1963, Pope and Saint of the Roman Catholic Church, opened the Second Vatican Council	until 1963 Kurzestrasse
Roonstrasse	Alstaden	Albert von Roon , 1803–1879, Field Marshal General and Minister of War
Rosastrasse	Buschhausen	named arbitrarily after the female first name	until 1929 Rosenstrasse
Roseggerstrasse	Lirich	Peter Rosegger , 1843–1918, Austrian folk and local poet
Rosenstrasse	Lirich	Here the miner Franz Rose built the first house.
Rossbachstrasse	Black heather	reminds of the Battle of Rossbach
Rostocker Strasse	Alsfeld	named after the north German city of Rostock	Name clustering
Rothebuschstrasse	Rothebusch	The road leads from Osterfeld to Rothebusch .	until 1937 Steinbrinkstrasse
Rothofstrasse	Buschhausen	The Große Rothof used to be here .	until 1937 partly Kleinerothofstraße , partly Großerothofstraße
Rudolfplatz	Bermensfeld	named arbitrarily after the male first name	Name clustering
Rudolfstrasse	Bermensfeld	named arbitrarily after the male first name	Name accumulation until 1915 Paulstraße
Rübekampstrasse	Osterfeld center	named after the Rübekamphof , the family Rübekamp , one of the oldest families in the Rothebusch belonged,
Rückertstrasse	Buschhausen	Friedrich Rückert , 1788–1866, poet and translator	until 1929 Gustavstrasse
Ruegenstrasse	Alsfeld	named after the island of Rügen
Rüsterweg	Walsumermark	named after the armor (elms)	Name clustering
Ruhrorter Strasse	Lirich	named after the Ruhrort district of Duisburg	until 1892 Obermeidericher Provinzialstraße
Ruhrstrasse	Alstaden	Named after the nearby Ruhr , in which Alstaden has a share of 1.8 km.
Ruprechtstrasse	Alstaden, Lirich	Arbitrarily named after the male first name, possibly based on the former name Michelstrasse	until 1937 Michelstraße , until 1945 Wilhelm-Gustloff-Straße ( Wilhelm Gustloff )

S.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Sachsenstrasse	Black heather	named after Saxony	Name clustering
Samlandstrasse	Alstaden	named after the former German coastal region Samland
Sandbergstrasse	Sterkrade center	This road was laid through the fields of the farmer Hermann Höfken, called Sandberg .
Sanderstrasse	Muffled	This road was laid out by the farmer Sander .
Sand road	Osterfeld Heath	Sand pits were probably located here in the past.	until 1936 Steinstrasse
Zaporozhye Square	Oberhausen	Zaporozhye has been a twin town of Oberhausen since 1986 .
Shaft street	Alsfeld	named after the shaft	Name clustering
Scharnhorststrasse	Downtown	Gerhard von Scharnhorst , 1755–1813, general
Scheffelstrasse	Styrum	Josef Victor von Scheffel , 1826–1886, poet, lawyer and librarian
Scheiferskamp	Barmingholten	The Scheiferskath lies in the demarcated field
Scheiferstrasse	Barmingholten	named after the Scheiferskath
Schemmannsfeld	Borbeck	laid out in the fields of the Schemmannhof
Schenkendorfstrasse	Marienviertel	Max von Schenkendorf , 1783–1817, poet and lyric poet	until 1935 Nordstrasse
Scheppmannstrasse	Borbeck	laid out in a field of the Scheppmanns Hof	until 1915 Hanielstrasse
Scherershof	Muffled	named after the old Scherershof
Scheuerstrasse	Osterfeld center	"Scheuer" means barn.	until 1936 Lanterstraße
Schifferstrasse	Alstaden	In memory of the Alstaden boatmen who drove coal across the Ruhr on flat Ruhraaks as early as 1700 . With the construction of the Ruhr Shipping Canal in 1927, Alstaden lost its importance as a port.	until 1937 Koloniestrasse
Schiller Street	Marienviertel	Friedrich von Schiller , 1759–1805, most important German poet alongside Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Schlackenbergstrasse	Sterkrade center	The Gutehoffnungshütte stored slag and foundry waste here until 1900 .
Schladstrasse	Schlad	Schlad was originally the name for part of the Lipper Heide and is now a district of Oberhausen. In the Rhenish dialect, the word "Schlad" is related to "stone".
Schlägelstrasse	Styrum	Mallets and irons are symbols of mining.	until 1910 Friedrichstrasse
Schlägerheidstrasse	Walsumermark	The Schlägerheide is part of the Hiesfeld Forest. There used to be timber stocks ready for harvest here.	until 1937 Schlägerstrasse
Schlansteinstrasse	Alstaden	Heinrich Schlanstein built the first houses here.
Schleiermacherstrasse	Buschhausen	Friedrich Schleiermacher , 1768–1834, philosopher and Protestant theologian
Schleifmühlenstrasse	Klosterhardt	A grinding mill for the St.-Antony-Hütte paper factory used to stand here .
Schleusenstrasse	Lirich	named after the Oberhausen lock
Schlosserstrasse	Alstaden	named arbitrarily after the craft occupation	Name clustering
Schlossstrasse	Vonderort	is located at the castle-like Vondern Castle
Schmachtendorfer Strasse	Schmachtendorf	leads through Schmachtendorf	until 1917 Poststrasse
Narrow street	Klosterhardt	actually a "narrow street"
Melting line	Lirich	refers to the former neighboring glass factory
Schmiedstrasse	Alstaden	named arbitrarily after the craft occupation	Name clustering
Schönefeld	Muffled	old hallway name ("Schönefelds Feld")
Schopenhauerstrasse	Buschhausen	Arthur Schopenhauer , 1788–1860, philosopher
Schubertstrasse	Tackenberg	Franz Schubert , 1797–1828, composer
Schützenstrasse	Osterfeld center	In 1882, Count von Westerholt made an old marl cave available to the Osterfeld rifle club, which was on this street.
Schulstrasse	Holten	The old Holten school was located here until 1842.
Schultestrasse	Alstaden	The land on this street used to belong to the Schultenhof .	until 1910 at Düppelstrasse
Schultheisstrasse	Muffled	after the landowners Schultheis named
Schwabenstrasse	Buschhausen	named after Swabia	Name accumulation until 1909 Sterkradestrasse , part of Bayernstrasse until the Emscher Canal was relocated
Schwalbenweg	Königshardt	after the swallows named	Name clustering
Schwartzstrasse	City center, Marienviertel	Friedrich August Schwartz (1816-1892) was the first mayor of Oberhausen.	until 1897 Bergstrasse
Black Forest Road	Klosterhardt	named after the Black Forest	until 1929 Grubenstrasse
Schweriner Strasse	Alsfeld	named after the north German city of Schwerin	Name clustering
Sedanstrasse	Marienviertel	reminds of the battle of Sedan
Seilerstrasse	Schlad	The Hermann Kleinholz rope factory used to be located here .	until 1936 between Virchowstrasse and Straßburger Strasse Jahnstrasse
Sheffield Street	new middle	Eddie Healey, the CentrO investor , comes from the central English city of Sheffield .
Transylvania Street	Lirich	named after Transylvania	until 1937 Waghalsstrasse
Settlers Way	Klosterhardt	This street name came about due to the settlement and the narrow expansion of the street.	around 1900 Vehnkampstrasse
Victory Road	Holten	probably from the patriotic thought after winning the German-French war out	formerly Hirschackerstraße
Siegfriedstrasse	Buschhausen	after the legendary figure Sigurd named	Name accumulation until 1936 Johannstrasse
Siegmundstrasse	Buschhausen	perhaps in relation to Siegfriedstrasse, into which it opens	until 1937 Schillerstrasse
Siepenstrasse	Rothebusch	"Siepen" are places with a loamy subsoil where the water could not seep away.
Siepmannstrasse	Muffled	Farmer Siepmann's Kotten was on this road.
Simrockstrasse	Buschhausen	Karl Simrock , 1802–1876, Germanist and poet
Skagerrakstrasse	Buschhausen	reminds of the Skagerrak battle	until 1937 connecting road
Sofienstrasse	Alstaden	named arbitrarily after the female first name	until 1910 Sedanstrasse
Solbadstrasse	Alstaden	In 1872 a spring containing brine was found in the Alstaden colliery , the discovery of which then led to the construction of the Alstaden brine bath in 1884 , which gave the Solbadstrasse its name. Alstaden was a health resort until 1908, then the brine bath was relocated to Speldorf and opened as the brine bath Raffelberg in 1909.
Sunshine road	Lirich	The Sunshine seam is a coal seam of the Bochum layers.
Sorpestrasse	Alstaden	named after the Volme (probably in connection with the nearby Ruhr )
Spechtstrasse	Klosterhardt	after the woodpeckers named
Speldorfer Strasse	Alstaden	The road used to lead to the Ruhr ferry, which maintained the connection to Speldorf .	until 1910 Goethestrasse
Sperberstrasse	Tackenberg	after Sperber named	Name clustering
Spessartstrasse	Klosterhardt	after the Spessart named	Name clustering
Sprockstrasse	Sterkrade center	In the area of ​​this street were the fields of Josef Sprock .
Stader way	Alsfeld	named after the north German city of Stade	Name clustering
Stahlstrasse	Bermensfeld	reminds of industry and the Gutehoffnungshütte
Starenweg	Walsumermark	There are many starlings here .	until 1936 on Hühnerbergstrasse
Steeler Street	Bermensfeld	named after Steele
Stefan-George-Strasse	Osterfeld center	Stefan George , 1868–1933, poet
Steiermarker Strasse	Muffled	shortly after the annexation of Austria by the Styria named
Steigerweg	Alstaden	The Steiger establishes the link to the Alstaden colliery , on whose site the road was laid.
Steinbrinkstrasse	Sterkrade center	old cadastral designation ( op den steenbrink ), " grass hill with stones"	originally Short Street , later until 1936 Marktstraße
Steinstrasse	Tackenberg	Either there are many stones in the area or the street name refers to the thick stones that were set up here as the border between the Prussian Sterkrade and the vestic Osterfeld.
Staked	Alstaden	very old hallway name ( on the stelten )	Already marked as Stelter Weg around 1823 , it used to lead to Mülheim until 1910 Wiesenstraße
Stemmerstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	The plateau to which this road leads bears the name Stemmersberg just like the associated settlement . This is derived from the farmer Hermann Stemmer , who owned the Freitagshof around 1850 .
Sterkrader Strasse	Osterfeld Heath	leads to Sterkrade	between Bottroper and Dorstener Strasse until 1929 Provinzialstrasse
Sternplatz	Schmachtendorf	Several streets come together in a star shape.	until 1917 Hubertusplatz
Sternstrasse	Schmachtendorf	At Sternplatz , which the street crosses, several streets come together in a star shape.	until 1917 Hugostraße
Stiftstrasse	Schlad	This is where the Barbarastift , the municipal pension office, lay .
Stockstrasse	Dümpten, Bermensfeld	Either the street is named after Simon Stock , who built the first house here, or after Wilhelm Stock , the first mayor of Borbeck .
Stockmannstrasse	Styrum, downtown	Wilhelm Stöckmann (1801–1877) was a Styrum farmer who gave the community of Styrum a piece of land in 1859, on which they built the old market .	earlier Short Street
Stöffkensfeld	Walsumermark	The area in which the road was laid used to belong to the Stoeffkens-Kath .
Stollenstrasse	Walsumermark	after the tunnel named	until 1917 Friedrichstrasse
Stork ring	Königshardt	named after the storks	Name clustering
Storpskamp	Rothebusch	named after the old Osterfeld farming family Storp , whose field was probably here
Stralsunder Strasse	Alsfeld	named after the north German city of Stralsund	Name clustering
Strasbourg street	Schlad, Styrum	named after the city of Strasbourg	Uhlandstraße until 1910 , Dümpterweg until 1934 The name Dümpterweg was rejected by residents and business people for reasons that are no longer comprehensible today, which is why the street was renamed in 1934.
Strickersweg	Marienviertel	This is where the Strickers farm used to be .
Strohgasse	Downtown	Theodor August Kessel's forage dealers could buy straw, among other things, which was probably the reason for the name.
Stump tree	Alstaden	Old hallway name. The Bergische Landwehr once ran here to protect the village of Alstaden. The Landwehr consisted of two to three densely overgrown and therefore insurmountable walls with hornbeams and pollarded willows, which were trimmed from time to time to a height of about three meters so that the wood obtained in this way could be rammed into gaps or braided or used as firewood. The name Stubbenbaum indicates a facility with such trimmed trees. ( stubbe - "trimmed")	until 1910 Gutenbergstrasse
Styrumer Allee	Styrum	A tree-covered connection across Styrum.	For pedestrians and cyclists only. until 1936 between Grenzstraße and Landwehr Alte Bahn
Styrumer Strasse	Downtown	laid out in the old Styrum Heath
Sudetenstrasse	Walsumermark	named after the Sudetes	until 1917 Weiherstrasse
Sühlstrasse	Borbeck	old field name ( Ripshorster Sühl ), "Schlammniederung, Lache"	until 1915 at Kanalstrasse

T

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Tackenbergstrasse	Tackenberg	leads to the Tackenberg, which in turn after Tackhof is named
Tackstrasse	Barmingholten	after the former Tackhof named	until 1937 Waldstrasse
Tannenbergstrasse	Marienviertel	reminds of the battle of Tannenberg	formerly Schwartzstrasse and Annabergstrasse Wasserstrasse , between Annabergstrasse and Mülheimer Strasse Dortmunder Strasse , later Hoffnungsstrasse from 1934 both parts together Tannenbergstrasse
Tannenstrasse	Black heather	named after the fir trees	Name clustering
Taunusstrasse	Klosterhardt	named after the Taunus
Teichfeldstrasse	Alstaden	old hallway name	until 1936 Südstrasse
Tellmannstrasse	Barmingholten	lay on the fields of the Tellmannshof	Hermannstraße until 1917 , Weberstraße until 1937
Tenterstrasse	Schmachtendorf	named after the Tentershof	until 1917 Försterstrasse
Tersteegenstrasse	Styrum	Gerhard Tersteegen , 1697–1769, pietistic song writer and preacher	until 1910 Mittelstraße , until 1933 Zwischenstraße , until 1945 Herbert-Norkus-Straße ( Herbert Norkus )
Teutoburger Strasse	Sterkrade-Mitte, Klosterhardt	named after the Teutoburg Forest	until 1936 in Sterkrade Bottropstrasse , in Osterfeld (Klosterhardt) Breitestrasse
Teutstrasse	Osterfeld	Around 1936, many miners from the Osterfeld colliery lived on this street . They took their drinks for the shift in coffee bags .	until 1936 Südstrasse
Theresenstrasse	Lirich	arbitrary naming after the female first name
Thomasstrasse	Bermensfeld	Sidney Thomas , 1850-1885, Metallurgist	Thyssen Niederrhein AG's private road
Thorner Strasse	Tackenberg	named after the Polish city of Thorn
Thuringian Street	Buschhausen	named after Thuringia	Name accumulation until 1936 Hambornstrasse
Tillystrasse	Holten	Johann Freiherr von Tilly , 1559–1632, general of the Catholic League in the Thirty Years' War	Name accumulation until 1900 Ernststraße
Tilsiter Strasse	Alsfeld	Named after the city of Tilsit at the request of the refugees from East Prussia who were resettled to Oberhausen after the Second World War
Timpenstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	old cadastral designation, named after the farm of the farmer Hermann Time
Tiroler Strasse	Muffled	named after Tyrol	Name accumulation (shortly after the annexation of Austria in 1938 named after Austrian federal states)
Tirpitzstrasse	Sterkrade center	Alfred von Tirpitz , 1849–1930, Grand Admiral in the First World War	until 1936 Alleestrasse
Tonderner Strasse	Sterkrade center	named after the former German city of Tondern
Tonweg	Osterfeld Heath	Clay used to be extracted here.
Gate alley	Downtown	The merchant Matthias Stamm once closed off his courtyard entrance with a large gate that gave the street its name.
Torgaustrasse	Black heather	named after the battle of Torgau
Tüsselstrasse	Walsumermark	named after the Tüsselbeck stream
Tulip Street	Lirich	named after the tulips	Name clustering
Turmstrasse	Tackenberg	The Tackenberg water tower stood here from 1906 to 1958.
Turnerweg	Sterkrade center	leads past the stadium and the gym of the Sterkrader gymnastics club
Turnplatzstrasse	Klosterhardt	A monument to Friedrich Ludwig Jahn used to stand here .

U

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Uhlandplatz	Knappenviertel	Ludwig Uhland , 1787–1862, Swabian poet, lawyer and politician
Uhlandstrasse	Knappenviertel	see Uhlandplatz
Uhlenbruckplatz	Lirich	The square is on the site of the old Uhlenbruckshof , and the Uhlenbruck family, along with many other private individuals, took part in the Green Roads campaign, which specifically laid out avenues around 1900.
Ulmenstrasse	Lirich	named after the elms	Name clustering
Ulrichstrasse	Muffled	arbitrary naming after the male first name	until 1933 Ziegelstraße , until 1945 SS-Straße
Interruption	Borbeck	lies in the lower, lower part of the former Great Klaumerbruch	until 1915 Hammerstrasse
Lower Walsumermarkstrasse	Walsumermark	Part of Walsumermarkstrasse that is separated from the motorway (see there)
Ursulastrasse	Lirich	arbitrary naming after the female first name	Name clustering

V

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Vandal Street	Schmachtendorf	The Hitler Youth of Schmachtendorf called themselves Vandalen , after the Germanic tribe Vandals . At their request, the street was renamed in 1933.	until 1917 between Handbachstraße and Sternstraße connecting street, between Sternstraße and Schmachtendorfer Straße Heinrichstraße , until 1937 Stephanstraße
Vehnkampstrasse	Klosterhardt	old cadastral designation, "wet, enclosed field"
Violet Trail	Lirich	after the violets named	Name clustering
Vennepoth	Muffled	old field name, indicates a depression in the ground ("poth") in which water collected, which was drawn from the main terrace of the Rhine by the watercourses ("Venne")
Vennstrasse	Holten	"Moorland"	In the 18th and 19th centuries Vullichsteg called ( Fullek = "Aas")
Vereinstrasse	Osterfeld Heath
Vestic road	Sterkrade-Mitte, Osterfeld-Heide, Osterfeld-Mitte	named after Vest Recklinghausen , to which Osterfeld belonged until 1813	until 1934 in Sterkrade Osterfelder Strasse , in Osterfeld up to Kapellenstrasse Sterkrader Strasse and from Kapellenstrasse Zechenstrasse
Vikariestrasse	Osterfeld center	Reminds of the Vicarie St. Catharina, founded by St. Pankratius in 1491 , which was partly added to Bottrop in 1590 due to a lack of income and partly reunited with the pastorate
Vincenzstrasse	Styrum	Named after the nearby current retirement home Vincenzhaus , which in turn is named after St. Vincenz von Paul .
Virchowstrasse	Marienviertel, Knappenviertel	Rudolf Virchow , 1821–1902, anthropologist and pathologist, member of the Reichstag	Part of Bergstraße until 1892 , later Hochstraße until 1937 , Albert-Frese-Straße until 1945
Völklinger Strasse	Osterfeld center	named after Völklingen	until 1936 Feldmannstrasse
Vosges road	Klosterhardt	named after the Vosges	until 1934 Hardtstrasse
Volksgartenweg	Osterfeld center	Footpath that leads to the Volksgarten	until 1945 Fähnleinweg
Volmestrasse	Alstaden	named after the volme	probably in relation to the nearby Ruhr , accumulation of names

W.

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Juniper Trail	Klosterhardt	named after the juniper bush
Guard street	Styrum	A gendarmerie guard used to lie here .	until 1910 Schillerstraße
Waghalsstrasse	Osterfeld center	Around 1600 the possessions of the Essen Abbey , the Duchy of Kleve and Vest Recklinghausen bordered one another. It was “daring” to cross these borders, which is why the area was called Waghalsbruch . The street name was later derived from this name.
Waidmannsweg	Alsfeld	“Waidmann” is another word for hunter . The street name refers to the nearby Sterkrad forest .	Name clustering
Waisenhausstrasse	Rothebusch	A municipal children's home used to be located here.	between 1939 and 1945 Ernst-vom-Rath-Strasse ( Ernst vom Rath )
Waldhuckstrasse	Schmachtendorf	Waldhuck used to be the name of a forest area and is now a small district in the north of Schmachtendorf. The name is derived from "squatting in the forest".	until 1917 Krumme Straße
Waldmannsfeld	Osterfeld center	The Kotten of farmer Wilhelm Waldmann used to be here .
Waldteichstrasse	Holten	Waldteich used to be the name for part of the Holtener Bruch and is now a small district in the south-east of Holten. The road crosses the forest pond.
Wallensteinstrasse	Holten	Albrecht von Wallenstein , 1583–1634, military leader in the Thirty Years' War on the side of the Catholic League
Walsumermarkstrasse	Walsumermark	leads across the Walsumer Mark	until 1917 Mittelstrasse
Walter-Flex-Strasse	Schlad	Walter Flex , 1887–1917, writer	until 1937 Bruchstrasse
Walterstrasse	Bermensfeld	named arbitrarily after the male first name	Name clustering
Rolling mill	Bermensfeld	refers to the Neu Oberhausen rolling mill at Gutehoffnungshütte
Wanner Street	Sterkrade center	in connection with the Eickelstraße named after Wanne	between Knie- and Vestischer Straße formerly Kohlestraße
Wasgenwaldstrasse	Klosterhardt	named after the Wasgenwald	Name clustering
Waterway	Holten	After the demolition of the city wall around 1780, the city moat flowed close by and a general washing area developed.
Weberstrasse	Lirich	Either randomly or named after a weaving mill that used to be here .
Weir road	Dümpten, Schlad	There used to be a land defense system here.	until 1910 Landwehrstrasse
Weidenstrasse	Biefang	Many pastures used to grow here .
Weierstrasse	Alsfeld, Black Heath	Named after the Weierhorst , around which several quarry ponds had formed.	between the railway line and Weseler Straße, formerly Dunkelschlagstraße
Weißensteinstrasse	Holten, Black Heath	The street used to lead to the Weißensteinhof .	until 1945 Ruhrchemiestraße
Welfenstrasse	Schlad	named after the Guelphs	until 1929 together with Normannenstraße Cäcilienstraße
Welsche Strasse	Osterfeld center	The road was laid out in the field of the Wälschebauer Hof .
Wengestraße	Klosterhardt	Franz von der Wenge (1707–1788) was canon of Münster and founder of the St. Antony hut , the "cradle of the Ruhr industry".	until 1933 Bogenstrasse
Werdener street	Muffled	named after Werden an der Ruhr	until 1936 Sackstrasse
Werkstrasse	Bermensfeld	used to open up the Gutehoffnungshütte factory colony	until 1915 Koloniestraße
Werner Street	Lirich	Werner Walbeck was a city councilor who built an artificial stone factory on this street.
Werrastrasse	Osterfeld Heath	with respect to the adjacent Fuldastraße after the river Werra named	until 1937 Koloniestrasse
Werthfeldstrasse	Osterfeld center	old cadastral designation, "Feld am Ufer"
Weseler Street	Alsfeld, Sterkrade-Mitte	leads towards Wesel	until 1917 between Steinbrinkstraße and Jägerstraße Weselstraße , between Jägerstraße and level crossing Emmerichstraße until 1937 between level crossing and Bahnstraße Clever Straße and up to Bahnstraße Sterkrader Straße
Wesselkampstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	in the fields of the Wesselkamp-Kottens applied	between Eisenheimer and Berliner Straße until 1935 Kurzestraße
Westerholtstrasse	Rothebusch	In the past, the Counts of Westerholt administered the entire area.
Westerwaldstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	named after the Westerwald	until 1935 Knappenstrasse
Westfälische Strasse	Osterfeld center	is on the Westphalian State Railway	earlier At the Westphalian Railway The place at the comprehensive school Osterfeld was named Horst-Wessel-Platz ( Horst Wessel ) between 1934 and 1945
Westhoffstrasse	Alsfeld	used to lead to the Westhoffs-Hof
Westmarkstrasse	Buschhausen	The Westmark was a forest area that offered protection from the outside and separated the individual clearing areas from each other.	until 1937 between Lindnerstrasse and Hagelkreuzstrasse Wilmsstrasse and between Hagelkreuzstrasse and Canal Liricher Strasse
West ramp	Black heather	Ramp-like road to connect the Black Heath and Biefang with Sterkrade-Mitte	Created in 1896
West Street	Biefang	The dead-end street on Weidenstraße heading west
Wewelstrasse	Black heather	named after the former Wewel farm
Wickstrasse	Lirich	Here, Georg Wick built the first house.
Wielandstrasse	Styrum	Christoph Martin Wieland , 1733–1813, poet
Meadow road	Vonderort	old cadastral designation ("Breilwiese")
Wilhelm Bettinger Way	Buschhausen	Wilhelm Bettinger (1903–1985) was a resistance fighter from Oberhausen who was imprisoned from 1933 to 1939. In the post-war period he made it his business to educate young people about the time of National Socialism and led many school classes through the exhibitions in Oberhausen Castle .
Wilhelm-Haumann-Weg	Alstaden
Wilhelmplatz	Sterkrade center	Wilhelm I , 1797–1888, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany	until 1936 Hindenburgplatz
Wilhelmstrasse	Sterkrade center	see Wilhelmplatz	until 1936 Hindenburgstrasse
Wilhelmshavener Strasse	Lirich	With the construction of the Rhine-Herne Canal , the last section of the inland waterway was closed in order to reach the port city of Wilhelmshaven .	until 1936 Jägerstrasse
Wilhelm-Tell-Strasse	Marienviertel	named after the Swiss national hero Wilhelm Tell	until 1936 Steinstrasse
Willy-Brandt-Platz	Downtown	Willy Brandt , 1913–1992, Federal Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate	until 1945 Bahnhofstrasse , until 1961 at the main train station , until 1993 Berliner Platz (to express the bond with the sealed off city of Berlin )
Wilmsstrasse	Lirich	The Wilmshof used to stand here .	former waterworks road , while today's Concordia street name Wilmsstraße wore
Windhoek Street	Alstaden	named after Windhoek , the former capital of German South West Africa , today of Namibia	until 1910 Gartenstraße , until 1936 Buschstraße
Winkelriedstrasse	Marienviertel	named after the Swiss legendary hero Arnold Winkelried	until 1936 Winkelstrasse
Winkelstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	Winkelstrasse is almost at a right angle.
Wissmannstrasse	Osterfeld center	Hermann von Wissmann , 1853–1905, Africa explorer and governor of German East Africa	Angerstrasse until 1936
Wittekindstrasse	Osterfeld center	Wittekind , pagan Saxon leader who was baptized under Charlemagne after his defeat by the Christian Franks	until 1937 Vennstrasse
Wittestrasse	Sterkrade center	Anton Witte (1809-1892) was pastor at St. Clemens from 1837 until his death and founded the Catholic St. Josef Hospital. He was Dechant von Sterkrade and Dome of Honor.
Wöhlerstrasse	Holten	Friedrich Wöhler , 1800–1882, chemist and creator of organic chemistry
Woerthstrasse	Downtown	reminds of the battle of Wörth
Wolframstrasse	Buschhausen	probably named after the male first name
Wolfstrasse	Alsfeld	Named after the wolves . The street name refers to the nearby Sterkrad forest .	Name clustering
Würpembergstrasse	Lirich	old cadastral designation ("am Würpemberg"), originally Wurperberg , Worpelberg . This name suggests a "cube-shaped mountain". This Wurperberg was roughly at the intersection of Würpembergstrasse and Weberstrasse and was the border between the Klevian Meiderich , the Bergisch Alstaden and the food in Lirich and Lippern .
Württembergstrasse	Black heather	named after Württemberg	Name clustering
Wunderstrasse	Lirich	Wunder was the last name of the head of the Mülheim land registry office, to whom Oberhausen was also subordinate to around 1890.
Wupperstrasse	Alstaden	named after the Wupper (probably in connection with the nearby Ruhr )	Name clustering

X

Y

Z

Street name	district	Derivation	Remarks
Zechenstrasse	Alsfeld
Ziegelstrasse	Osterfeld Heath	former brick factory
Zieglerstrasse	Klosterhardt	Gottfried Ziegler, Kommerzienrat, honorary citizen of the city of Oberhausen, the street is on the Jacobisiedlung he built
Ziethenstrasse	Black heather	Hans Joachim von Ziethen , 1699–1786, hussar general in the Seven Years' War	until 1936 Blumenthalstrasse
Zilianplatz	Sterkrade center	August Zilian, social democratic resister against National Socialism
Zimmerstrasse	Alstaden	Several streets in the vicinity are named after craft trades
Zorndorfstrasse	Black heather	named after the battle of Zorndorf
To Brunsloh	Walsumermark	"Brown forest", indicates the brown peat floor on which the forest was located
To Dörnbusch	Klosterhardt	named after the Dörnbusch
To the iron hammer	Lirich	named after the Eisenhammer Neu-Essen hammer mill that Kunigunde von Essen had built here in 1791
To the Ravenhorst	Walsumermark	named after a hill overgrown with bushes on which ravens settled	until 1917 Horststrasse
To the Röttgersbach	Holten	named after the Röttgersbach	until 1937 sand road
To the Steinacker	Schmachtendorf, Walsumermark	stony fields	until 1917 Herzogstraße , until 1936 Kampstraße
To the ironworks	new middle	former ironworks Oberhausen II
To the Ludwigshütte	Alsfeld	named after the Ludwigshütte	until 1936 Fabrikstrasse
To the post office	Sterkrade center	is at the post office
Zweibrückener Strasse	Königshardt	Zweibrücken , town in Rhineland-Palatinate , the original home of some of the Protestants who settled on the Königshardt in the 18th century
Branch road	Osterfeld Heath	probably so named because it branches off from Sterkrader Straße

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the source used is: Alfred & Ulrich Lindemann: 500 kilometers of Oberhausen street history. 1997.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Values ​​from the district lists adopted, if not available, estimated using the same method (will be replaced as soon as the value of the district list is available!)