The architect Paul Rowald also designed Bad Hersfeld station with the same layout and style.

The station building is symmetrically designed on an H-shaped floor plan.

A "princely pavilion" (Fürstenpavillon) was built to the west of the main building with three bay windows; there is also a detached toilet block built in the Romanesque Revival style east of the main building.

The buildings in the station area are the house of the track supervisor (Bahnmeister) from 1868 (a building of the "first generation" of structural engineering on the line), a freight-handling facility from the period around 1870, and a water tower—architecturally out of harmony with the towers of the Gelnhausen town wall—from 1937.

The infrastructure for the lines at the station has been demolished and has been replaced by parking lots.