The station was established on 25 November 1875 with the commissioning of the Annweiler–Zweibrücken section of the Queich Valley Railway (Queichtalbahn).

At the same time the branch line to Pirmasens was opened, making the station a railway junction.

In 1905, a further branch line was opened to Waldfischbach and the station building became surrounded by rail tracks.

With the introduction of the summer timetable in May 1989, a forerunner of the modern Regional-Express services called a RegionalSchnellBahn ran on the Saarbrücken–Pirmasens Nord–Landau–Karlsruhe route using new class 628.2 diesel multiple units.

Today the station serves as a junction between the railway lines from Saarbrücken, Landau and Kaiserslautern, all starting or ending at Pirmasens.

The station building possessed a restaurant at times, a ticket hall and toilets before it was taken out of service for rail operations.