The station, which is owned and operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB),[1] is the largest in Feldkirch.

Other railway stations within the city limits are Altenstadt, Feldkirch Amberg, Gisingen and Tisis.

[2] The original station building was repeatedly extended from 1884, as the Arlberg railway transformed Feldkirch into an international transport hub.

[9][10][11] Irish writer James Joyce paid a visit to Feldkirch in 1932 to see his friend Eugene Jolas.

Due to World War I, he had been considered an "enemy alien" in his then home town of Trieste, which, at that time, was part of Austria-Hungary.

Thanks to influential friends, he had obtained permission to leave Austria-Hungary, with his partner Nora Barnacle and their two shared children, and travel to Zürich.

At the end of 2001, the ÖBB replaced a plaque mounted by the Feldkirch culture circle above the ticket counters on Bloomsday 1994 with a more conspicuous presentation of the Joycean literary quotation.In his memoirs The World of Yesterday (German: Die Welt von Gestern), the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig explained that on 24 March 1919 he had been an eyewitness at Feldkirch railway station, as Charles I of Austria was deported from the Republic of German Austria into exile in Switzerland:[14] Upon returning to Austria via the border station at Feldkirch an unforgettable experience stood before me.

I was startled: the last Emperor of Austria, heir to the Habsburg dynasty, which ruled the country for seven hundred years, was leaving his kingdom!