Plans to develop the land in the Rhine Valley below the Odenwald with a railway, which started in the 1860s, always had an objective of building a connection to Worms.

In order to provide the originally planned connection to Worms, a link was built from Weinheim via Viernheim to Lampertheim, which opened in 1905.

Deutsche Bahn (DB) bus service 5521 ran as a substitute between Weinheim and Worms, but it departed from the railway route (running through Hüttenfeld, Neuschloß and Rosengarten and not serving Muckensturm).

The Weinheim–Viernheim freight line was repaired in June 2004 and served a central warehouse of Spedition Pfenning, a transport subsidiary of the Henkel Group from 6 July 2004.

Trains were hauled by a road-rail vehicle in accordance with the "regulations on the construction and operation of railway sidings" (Verordnung über den Bau und Betrieb von Anschlussbahnen).