In the meantime asylum seekers from East Germany arrived at the station building. Until the late 1990s, it was left to decay. After its renovation, the Otto von Bismarck Foundation ("Stiftung") moved into it in 2000. It operates the former station building and next to it has research facilities and a museum with a permanent exhibition on German history of the 19th century. The station is served by Regionalbahn services on the Aumühle–Büchen line as a request stop. Other regional and long-distance services pass Friedrichsruh without stopping.