Due to the high construction costs on the Crimmitschau–Plauen section, the company became insolvent and was bought by the Saxon state in 1847.

At this time work was already under way on the Plauen–Hof section to raise further revenue to pay off the expensive bridge structures as quickly as possible.

About 700 m of track, including four sets of points, and a wooden loading ramp were built for the freight traffic, which was now accepted.

[5] The station survived the Second World War undamaged, but destruction on the Leipzig–Hof railway meant that traffic could only be maintained until April 1945 at the latest.

[6] Thuringia and parts of Saxony were still occupied by the Americans in April and May 1945, but they withdrew at the beginning of July 1945 to the demarcation line established in the spring of 1945.

[7] From 20 December 1945 onwards, freight trains carrying lignite were regularly running from the central Germany brown coal mining area over the zonal border.

[8] From September 1964 onwards, the volume of traffic increased once again and freight trains to West Berlin also operated through Gutenfürst.

In the initial period after the border opening on 9 November 1989, rail services were chronically overloaded, but they returned to normal soon after.

As a result, there was basically only one final class that was trained here to be communications electronics technicians in the department of information technology from 1991 to 1995.