 It is located 23.2 kilometres from Gießen station on the Vogelsberg Railway ("Vogelsbergbahn"), which continues to Fulda.In the past, the Lumda Valley Railway ("Lumdatalbahn") to Londorf and Lollar branched off here and the Butzbach–Lich railway to Butzbach via Lich and Münzenberg.Grünberg station was opened with the first section of the Vogelsberg Railway from Giessen to Grünberg on 29 December 1869.