The station is 1.63 km (1.01 mi) west of Wien Meidling.

The railway station was opened in June 1841 as a part of the railroad from Vienna to Gloggnitz in Lower Austria.

The locomotive was named Philadelphia and a bridge across the railroad between the railway stations Wien Meidling and Wien Hetzendorf is called Philadelphiabrücke up to now in commemoration of the early days of that railroad.

It was completed as the Southern Railway in Austria until 1857 to reach the harbour of Trieste, then part of the Austrian Empire.

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