 In the fields east of the railway station there was an American internment camp holding up to 80,000 German prisoners of war.Welda was in the British zone of occupation from 1945, then from 1949, following the political division of occupied Germany, Welda became part of the Federal Republic of West Germany until German reunification in 1990.In 1890, a section of the railway line from Warburg to Bad Arolsen opened with a station in the village.