It is located on the Alsenz Valley Railway (Alsenztalbahn, Hochspeyer–Bad Münster) and was opened on 29 October 1870 with the first section from Hochspeyer to Winnweiler.

[5][6][7] During this time, the station was managed by the Betriebs- und Bauinspektion Kaiserslautern II (operations and construction inspectorate of Kaiserslautern II) and was part of the responsibility of the Bahnmeisterei Rockenhausen (office of the track master of Rockenhausen).

[10][11] After the Second World War, the newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) transferred the station to the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz (Bundesbahn railway division of Mainz), which was assigned all railway lines within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

[12] In 2000, the station, like all stations in the Western Palatinate, became part of the Westpfalz-Verkehrsverbund (Western Palatinate transport association, WVV) at its foundation, but the WVV was absorbed into the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar transport association, VRN) six years later.

At the beginning of March 2008, the upgrading of Winnweiler station to provide accessibility began.

It has a signal box containing a push-button relay interlocking without automatic course setting built by Siemens and designated as Wf.

In addition, there was a "supplemental” pair of freight trains, which served only the larger stations between Kaiserslautern and Münster such as Winnweiler.