Officially, the station has been in existence since 17 June 2011 and is located on the route from Grünauer Kreuz to Berlin Brandenburg Airport.

From the municipality of Schönefeld the wish arose that the S-Bahn Berlin would serve Waßmannsdorf even before the opening of the BER.

There is no direct road connection to the village, because the tracks of the Berlin outer ring lie to the west.

The station has two outer platforms, each of which can be reached from the surrounding area via an access structure with stairs and elevators.

After the ILA Berlin Air Show 2012 had to relocate to the southwest side of the future Berlin Brandenburg Airport, it was initially planned that a large part of the visitor traffic on the public days would be handled by the Waßmannsdorf station, which is located near the new exhibition grounds.

However, the Federal Police prohibited its use shortly before the exhibition began, because the station was too small for the expected stream of visitors.

The station was financed exclusively by the municipality of Schönefeld and was designed only to meet its needs, i.e. the site itself, a future industrial estate and airport employees.

Messe Berlin had convinced the Bundesverband der Deutschen Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie (BDLI) to continue the ILA in Schönefeld, partly because of the favourable transport links via the S-Bahn, but did not get involved in the planning of the station.