The station was built in 1920 on the site of Steindammer Tor as part of a railway linking the networks north & south of the city.

A 5-storey entrance building facing south onto Hansaplatz was designed by architect Martin Stallmann in the modernist style.

[citation needed] During World War II, on 24 June 1942, the first and largest group of Jewish deportees from East Prussia, comprising 465 Jewish men, women and children, were loaded onto trains by members of the SS at the freight depot of the city's northern station and sent to the Maly Trostenets extermination camp near Minsk.

[2] After the war, the station was closed and the main building, which had been damaged badly by incendiary bombs, was rebuilt as offices.

[citation needed] On 24 June 2011, a memorial plaque was dedicated at the station to Jewish deportees from Königsberg and the province of East Prussia.