The Hlučín station building dates from 1912–1913, but the story of the town’s connection to the Silesian railway network is much older. Talks on establishing a railway date back to 1880, with Mayor Stanislav Woytych (1850–1909) playing an important role from the start. Project preparations and surveying began in 1896, a year after the Opava–Chuchelná–Ratiboř line opened. The new line was to run from Kravaře to Hlučín and on to Annaberg (today Chałupki), linking up with the main European network.
Besides financial issues, debate over the route delayed the project. Baron Rothschild opposed a line through his Černý les hunting grounds. The Vítkovice Collieries protested against a variant along the south slope of Landek and through the Anselm mine complex. Work therefore did not begin until 1911. The Kravaře–Hlučín section opened on 28 October 1913. Construction towards Petřkovice started in April of the following year, but was halted by the war. The first train from Opava reached Petřkovice only after the establishment of Czechoslovakia, on 14 June 1925. In the new republic, there was no longer interest in a link to Prussian Annaberg, and an alternative plan to take the line to Ostrava-Přívoz was never realised. The Hlučín–Petřkovice section was inevitably loss-making, and rail operations ceased in 1950, making Hlučín a terminus.
The station building comprises several sections of differing height and volume: a central two-storey booking hall, to the west a single-storey station restaurant, and to the east, by the tracks, a forward-set goods shed with a raised ground floor and ramps. The silhouette is enlivened by gables of unequal height, a mix of hipped and half-hipped roofs, dormers, and originally also ornamental chimneys. Its romantic appearance in the spirit of the Heimatstil was largely lost in alterations carried out in the 1970s.
