The station was opened on 15 April 1869 under the name
Goddelau-Erfelden. Then as now, it served two districts of Riedstadt, Goddelau and Erfelden. On 29 May 1869, the prime minister of the
Grand Duchy of Hesse, Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Dalwigk, opened the first section of the
Hessian Ludwig Railway’s
Darmstadt–Worms railway, from
Darmstadt Ludwig station via Goddelau and
Biblis to
Rosengarten station, on the opposite side of the Rhine to Worms. From there, the
Worms-Rosengarten train ferry operated over the Rhine from 1870 to 1900, when it was replaced by a bridge across the Rhine. This was the first section of the
Riedbahn (Ried Railway), which runs through an area called the
Hessische Ried, hence the name. The line from Biblis to the Mannheim suburb of Waldhof was opened in October 1879, so that the route to Mannheim ended not at
Mannheim Central Station, but at the
Riedbahnhof, north of today's Kurpfalz Bridge. In November 1879, the (then) branch line from Goddelau to
Frankfurt was opened. In 1975, the railway between Darmstadt and Goddelau was closed due to lack of traffic and partly dismantled. All that remains of the line is a siding from Darmstadt to
Weiterstadt-Riedbahn, where the line ends. As a result of the incorporation of the former twin town of Goddelau-Wolfskehlen in the newly founded city of Riedstadt,
Goddelau-Erfelden station was renamed as
Riedstadt-Goddelau on 1 January 1977. ==Operations==