Originally a marsh north of the city fortifications on the road to Spandau, the Prussian king Frederick the Great about 1750 had a market square laid out under the surveillance of Townmajor Hans Christoph Friedrich Graf von Hacke in the course of a northern town expansion.
Originally a low-lying area north of the city walls on the path to Spandau, King Frederick the Great in the mid-1700s had a public space created within this region as part of an expansion of the northern town.