Gern
The Gern Underground Station is located underground station of the Munich U -Bahn. It is during the second trunk line in the same district Gern of the Bavarian capital Munich.
The built below the Waisenhausstraße station was opened to traffic on 23 May 1998. It opens up the adjacent residential areas. The underground station is served by the subway lines U1 and U7. A link to other lines of the Munich transport does not exist.
History
The station should now be 185 meters to the south by the plans of 1989. The Government of Upper Bavaria decided a year later that the station due to more balanced station distances and better passenger forecasts should be built facing north, but this meant the rise in construction costs by three million DM and the extension of the construction by several months.
Bahnhofanlage
The outside is because of the cramped conditions at the surface, at an angle. The reason for this is that the orphanage road could not be completely blocked during construction. The walls of the station are made of blue glazed concrete, are mounted on the glass plates on which part of the story is wannabes. The light from nine pyramids of Light is reflected from the designed with bright granite floor. To access floor and the surface lead at both ends of the platform lifts as well as driving and hard stairs. The built of the Cologne-based lighting design in the ceiling light nine pyramids were fitted into the spaces between the stiffeners of the station building and give the impression as if daylight would come from above through them. They are accessible through an unused cavity above the platform. From there, defective lamps can be replaced. Through the slit wall - cover construction method such voids exist at many subway stations.
Traffic
The Gern Underground Station is located on the second trunk line of the Munich U- Bahn network. He is from the northern branch of the U1 underground line, which runs on this route in parts, together with the U2 operated. In addition, since December 12, 2011 keeps the amplifier U7 train only runs in the morning rush hour. There are no interchanges with other lines in the network of the Munich transport.
About the line from Moosach the local residential areas and the Olympia shopping center can be achieved. The crossing at the metro station U3 binds to the Olympic Park. To the south is the link to the main train station and central transit Sendlinger Tor. There interchanges to the other two original routes of the subway and S-Bahn are available. In the course of U1, the southern parts of the city Untergiesing and Harlaching be connected.