It serves the neighborhood of Dahlem and is one of two main stations used by students of the Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin), the other being Freie Universität (Thielplatz).
The architecture of the station building with its distinctive thatched roof is based on the looks of traditional northern-German farmhouses.
On 29 December 1943, Dahlem-Dorf was destroyed due to air raids.
[1] Two wooden seating groups designed as a group of figures by Berlin artist Wolf van Roy have been referring to the nearby ethnological museum since 1984.
In April 2012, the station burned down again and was restored in mid-2013, but instead of the original grass-like material a synthetic replica was used for "reasons of security".