Schüsseldamm

Laid out as a causeway to connect the Old City with the Young City, which had been founded by the Teutonic Order in 1380 in the area of the later Schichau Shipyard, the lane is first documented in 1402 as "nuwe gasse geende von dem hakelwerke off unsir junge stadt" (new lane going from the Hakelwerk to our Young City). Later, in 1415, it was called "nuwer tam" (new causeway), a designation that also included Tischlergasse.

During the expansion of the Old City's wall fortifications after the outbreak of the Confederation War, the New Causeway was closed off around 1460 by the old Jakobstor (St. James's Gate), located beyond the hospital of the same name and already mentioned in 1456. In 1635, this gate was relocated between the Bastion St. Jakob, erected in its place, and the Bastion Heiliger Leichnam (Holy Corpse).

The present name of the street, first mentioned in 1565, derives from the trade of the bowl turners (Schüsseldreher), who had formed a guild together with the chair and block turners since 1526.