Located at the southern entrance of the Olympic Stadium, it is served by the S-Bahn lines S3 and S9.

The station opened in 1909 on the Westbahn suburban railway north of the Grunewald forest.

Adjacent to the south is the Berlin Unité d'Habitation, erected in 1958 according to plans by Le Corbusier.

The station was closed in 1980, following the boycott by West Berliners on the East German-run S-Bahn, and the 1980 Deutsche Reichsbahn strike, taking away almost all traffic from the terminus.

For the reconstruction, large parts of the facility were demolished and rebuilt, including all platforms and the pedestrian bridge to Trakehner Allee.