The entrance building, which has 300 square metres (3,200 sq ft) of usable space, is located on platform 1 (used by trains to Frankfurt) and houses the Deutsche Bahn travel centre, waiting benches and vending machines for beverages and confectioneries.

Platform 4 (serving trains to Cologne) is reached over a bridge spanning the track, which has a staircase and a lift at each end.

[9] A sub-centre of the electronic interlocking system and an electric sub-station (which is also linked to the public network[10]) have also been established in the area of the station.

This makes Limburg Süd the only station in Germany to be served exclusively by high speed train services.

[13] The planning of a Cologne–Gross-Gerau high-speed railway in the 1970s envisaged a station between Limburg and Diez on its right bank (east of the Rhine) route option.

The proposed station was assessed as having "predominantly regional importance", which justified "only a limited number of train stops".

In an agreement of March 1990 the premiers of the two states as well as the federal transport minister noted that there was consensus that "a stop was required in the Limburg area".

[15][18] The selection of the current location meant a comparatively small expenditure at the cost of a missing link to the transport network and a secluded position; it also necessitated the construction of the 2.4-kilometre-long (1.5 mi) Limburg tunnel through a water protection zone.

The station would be built at a green-field location about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) southeast of the city centre and close to the A 3.

The traffic forecast assumed that 90 percent of rail passengers would use cars to reach or leave the station, connecting with ICEs.

[15] Before the decision about the Rhine route in the Federal Cabinet, the then premier of Rhineland-Palatinate, Carl-Ludwig Wagner 1989 called for a so-called option S in an interview in July.

The Federal Transport Minister, Friedrich Zimmermann spoke of a "provincial farce" and suggested, as a compromise, the establishment of a high-speed station in Limburg to provide a connection with Koblenz.

The then Deutsche Bundesbahn initially accepted the route via Limburg and Vilich in order to prevent further delays to the project.

[20] The Eschhofen variation, which provided for an eastern curve around the city, was introduced into the planning approval process.

[22] Deutsche Bahn, the town of Limburg and the State of Hesse ran a competition for the design of the station and its environment in 1997.

[7] In early 1997, the jury chose from 35 proposals received[7] a "flying carpet" design from the Düsseldorf architecture office of Schuster.

This was linked to two conditions: the future of the station must be guaranteed in the long term and Limburg would become part of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (Rhine-Main Transport Association, RMV).

[26] On 31 January 2001, representatives of Deutsche Bahn and the mayor of the town of Limburg, Martin Richard, signed a contract for the development of the area surrounding the station.

The robust increase of 32 per cent from 2003 to 2005 assured that Limburg Süd would remain utilised after an operational review in 2007.