The station opened in 1909 on the "Westbahn" suburban railway north of the Grunewald forest. It was then called "Rennbahn" after a horse racing circuit at the site of the today's stadium. Like the nearby U-Bahn station it received the name "Stadion" in 1913, when the "Deutsches Stadion", projected for the 1916 Summer Olympics, was inaugurated. After Berlin was awarded the 1936 Summer Olympics the station was again renamed "Reichssportfeld" until it got its actual designation in 1960, spelled without a hyphen in contrast to the "Olympia-Stadion" U-Bahn station. Adjacent to the south is the Berlin Unité d'Habitation, erected in 1958 according to plans by Le Corbusier. The station was closed in 1980, following the boycott by West Berliners on the East German-run S-Bahn, and the 1980 Deutsche Reichsbahn strike, taking away almost all traffic from the terminus. Most of the West Berlin portion of the S-Bahn, including Olympiastadion, was closed until 1998. The station re-opened in 1999.