Nistertal-Bad Marienberg station was opened with the Hachenburg–Hadamar section of the Upper Westerwald Railway on 1 October 1886 under the name of Erbach (Westerw).

In addition to the crossing of the Upper Westerwald Railway near Erbach station, an eleven-arched concrete viaduct, which, at about 300 metres long and almost 40 metres high, was the largest of its kind in the German Empire at the time,[5] was built over the Nister in only six months.

[7] Passenger services over the whole Erbach–Fehl-Ritzhausen railway, and freight traffic between Marienberg and Fehl-Ritzhausen, were discontinued on 26 September 1971.

[7][6] The entrance building of Nistertal-Bad Marienberg station, including an attached freight shed, was built to a standard design in around 1885.

Nistertal-Bad Marienberg station still has extensive railway facilities, which were formerly used for freight operations and have not been dismantled.