The station was built in 1872 in the style of a Tuscan villa as a train station for the elegant development of Villenkolonie Lichterfelde West, a newly created expensive residential area for wealthy Berliners.

From 1946 until 1993 Lichterfelde West was the terminus of the Duty-Train of the United States Forces in Berlin.

Some areas that had been neglected for decades were repaired, such as the station building, which had been damaged in a fire in 1965.

The wooden sculpture ‘’Flora von Lichterfelde‘’ by the Berlin-based sculptor Wolf van Roy has stood in the centre of the station concourse since 1986.

A citizens‘ initiative centred around Nils Seethaler[2] has been campaigning since 2022 for the restoration and reinstallation of the sculpture, which has since been relocated.