Bezirk Altona
This minor planet was named after Altona, Hamburg, the location of the Altona Observatory, at which Heinrich Christian Schumacher began publication of the astronomical journal "Astronomische Nachrichten" in 1821. Altona is the home-town of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, who founded the Pulkovo Observatory near St Petersburg, Russia. The was also mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 ().