Named after the Wuhletal, the green valley of the little river Wuhle.
The station lies on the northern edge of the Wuhletal landscape park, created from 2002 along the Wuhle. The name of this small tributary of the Spree comes from Slavic, from the word *vol, ‘ox’; it first appears in the field name Wuhlheide in 1559. The station opened on 1 July 1989; it had been planned under the name Kaulsdorf-West.