The station is a stop for ICE trains with connections towards Hamburg and Karlsruhe.
Today this branch line ends in Bad Wildungen.
[1][2][3] The station opened in December 1849, at the same time as the railway line from Kassel.
The station has a main building designed by Julius Eugen Ruhl [de].
[4][5] In 2018 the station was modernized to be barrier-free, involving the construction of a new underpass, three elevators and raised platforms.