It was opened with the section of the Rhine Valley Railway from Offenburg to Freiburg on 1 August 1845.

A line that branches off in Riegel Ort and runs on the eastern edge of the Kaiserstuhl to Gottenheim was opened at the same time.

In the northern part of the station there is a connecting track to the Rhine Valley Railway.

At the beginning of September 2014, a large commuter parking lot was built on the eastern side of the station (in the territory of Malterdingen) for €416,000, which supplemented the existing parking lot on the west side of the station (in the territory of Riegel).

11, is located across a parking lot from the station building and serves the single track of the Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft's Kaiserstuhl Railway.