The district owes its name to Alois Senefelder, who revolutionized printing technology with the invention of lithography. Born in Prague in 1771, the law student with a penchant for writing was looking for a way to reproduce his works inexpensively and devised a process using ground stone plates with greasy ink and a printing plate coated with water. In 1799, the music publisher Johann Anton André von Senefelder acquired the patent rights and from 1800, the new process began its triumphal march around the world from Offenbach.
In 1871, Louis Faber and Adolf Schleicher founded the "Associationsgeschäft zur Produktion von lithographischen Schnellpressen" in Frankfurt. In 1873, the first factory building was erected on Sedanstraße (today: Christian-Pleß-Straße). In 1967, 3,000 people were employed by the printing press manufacturer "Faber und Schleicher". In 1979, Roland Offsetmaschinenfabrik Faber & Schleicher, Offenbach and the printing press division of Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg merged to form MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, Offenbach/Main. The plant was successively expanded until it finally occupied and shaped a large part of the area between Christian-Pleß-, Senefelder-, Gustav-Adolf- and Waldstraße. The site was closed in 2004. Today, many company apartments in the surrounding streets still bear witness to the great importance that the industry had in Offenbach.