It is located at kilometre 10.9 of the Black Forest Railway and is a station on the network of the Stuttgart S-Bahn.

It is assumed that Foreign Minister Karl von Varnbüler, the former owner of the Höfingen castle, influenced the route.

However, although the route ran along the Glems valley through the district of Höfingen, the village at first had no station.

On 30 September 1932, the Deutsche Reichsbahn opened a second mainline track between Ditzingen and Leonberg.

Since 1 October 1978, S-Bahn line S 6 services running between Weil der Stadt and Schwabstraße stop in Höfingen.