The street itself was named in 1908 in honor of the Lipsian merchant August Adolf Focke (1817–1885), known for having donated part of his fortune for a municipal clinic and a poorhouse.

[2] At the end of World War II, a railway network began to be built in Leipzig to transport debris and rubble out of the city and store it in different locations.

This site offered the advantage of being close to the southeastern suburbs of the city center (current Südvorstadt neighbourhood) which had suffered heavy damage during the bombings.

Several benches are installed at its summit as well as 15 wooden sculptures, trees are planted on its slope and the road (approximately 850 metres (2,789 ft) long) to access it is paved.

Every year, the culture center named naTo in the Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse organizes a gravity racers' race down the Fockeberg road, called Prix de tacot.