It is located on the Berlin Northern Railway (Berliner Nordbahn) line in the district of Reinickendorf, though it is named after the adjacent Schönholz quarter of the neighbouring Pankow district.

The station is served by S-Bahn trains and local bus lines, and is protected as a listed monument.

[2] When the station opened on 10 July 1877 with the name Reinickendorf, it initially only had one outdoor platform.

The Kremmen Railway was electrified two years later, and mixed operation with steam locomotives came to an end.

On 9 January 1984 management of the West Berlin S-Bahn was transferred from the Deutsche Reichsbahn to the BVG.