The plans for the entrance building were probably drawn up by the Darmstadt court architect Georg Moller.

Originally the station was built as a two-storey building with a roof turret.

In December 2007, Deutsche Bahn announced that it intended to sell the station building and shortly later that it had sold it to an investor.

Since the station is equipped with external platforms on the double-track line that are not directly connected by a pedestrian underpass, passengers heading south towards Bensheim or Heidelberg and who need to purchase a ticket must take into account the time needed to use the ticket machine and cross the tracks (about 8 minutes).

The trains is served by the RB 68 Regionalbahn (stopping) service on the Heidelberg Hbf–Weinheim (Bergstr)–Zwingenberg–Bensheim–Darmstadt Hbf–Frankfurt (Main) Hbf route.