[5] The station's history has strong ties to football - the local club SC Preußen Dellbrück was successfully competing for the German championship in the early 1950s.

This led to the then-president of SC Preußen Dellbrück, Willy Röhrig, lobbying the Deutsche Bundesbahn to open a station in Holweide.

The DB agreed under the condition that a passenger access ramp would have to be provided by the club, which posed little problems to Röhrig, as he was working in the building industry.

Due to the ever-growing number of commuters between Cologne and Bergisch Gladbach, the station was extensively refurbished in 1972 and electrified in 1975.

The platform height cannot be raised to the 96 cm needed for disabled access because of the freight traffic on the line to Bergisch Gladbach.