[4] Germany and the Netherlands agreed on 13 November 1874 to establish a direct rail link between Enschede and Dortmund.

The Dortmund-Gronau-Enschede Railway Company (Dortmund-Gronau-Enscheder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, DGE) was established for this purpose and the first section was opened to Lünen station (now Lünen Nord) already on 25 November 1874.

Dülmen DGE station was opened half a kilometre northwest of the Cologne-Minden station on 15 June 1875 and a grade-separated crossing was created during the building of the next section of the DGE to Dülmen.

This was destroyed in the Second World War and was never rebuilt; the rest of the track is still used as a siding.

The station building built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company was demolished in 1977.