As a result of the construction of the Wutha–Ruhla railway, the halt was reclassified as a station in 1879/80 and a freight shed and a loading road were built.

This plant mainly exported technical facilities for seed cleaning and grain silos to other Communist countries.

Further east was the ACZ Wutha agrochemical centre, which was founded in the 1970s, with several feed and fertiliser storage halls.

A central concrete plant was built at Rehhof and supplied with cement, sand and gravel from the Bad Salzungen area.

On weekdays, there is an additional peak hour service also running as RB 20 (Eisenach – Wutha – Gotha – Erfurt (– Apolda)).