At the end of March 1945, an "evacuation" train with detainees from the Neckarelz concentration camp was parked near the station for three days.

Nine of the detainees died and were buried in a common grave at what is now the old cemetery; a memorial stone is located there.

The 140 metre-long and 76 centimetre-high platforms now provide level access to the S-Bahn trains, which operate almost exclusively on track 1.

The S1 service provides an hourly connection to Homburg via Mosbach-Neckarelz, Eberbach, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Neustadt (Weinstraße) and Kaiserslautern.

Built in the 1860s, the entrance building was auctioned by Deutsche Bahn in 2014 and bought by the municipality of Osterburken for €120,000.