 Opened as a station on the Ringbahn in 1872 the current station building was erected in 1930 by Alfred Grenander, enabling to exchange into the underground station opened that year.Until 1961 the station's name was Berlin Neukölln-Südring to refer to the S-Bahn.However, after the Berlin Wall was built, and as the S-Bahn was under the influence of the GDR government, the addition Südring was deleted.