Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft
The station was opened on 1 July 1878 by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company ("Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft", CME) together with the Bocholt–Wesel railway, which branched off its Oberhausen–Arnhem railway (known as the "Hollandstrecke"–"Holland line") at Wesel.