München Isartor station

• S- Bahn route (S1 -S8 ) ( KBS 999)

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The Munich Isar Gate station is a double-track tunnel station of the Munich S-Bahn. It is located below the Isartorplatzes and Thierschstrasse / Zweibrückenstraße in Munich. The columns, escalators and the trim on the walls are decorated maigrün in recognition of his color.

Description

Like all other stations of the main line he also has two outputs. The western opening up a vast mezzanine the intersection Altstadtring / valley / Zweibrückenstraße, the eastern opens into the courtyard of the shopping arcade Breiterhof between the Thierschstraße and Liebherrstraße.

Because the S- Bahn line between the Isar Gate stations and Rosenheimerplatz crosses under the river Isar, a Wehrkammertor is immediately east of the station in either tube attached, which the tunnel can be sealed watertight, so the west of the Isar -lying stations in the event of flooding not fully run and by the transition at the Marienplatz U- Bahn network would also flooded. On the eastern side of the Isar, there is no such a construction, since the station Rosenheimerplatz is substantially above the Isar level.

In tunneling of about 2000 ton tower Isartor by an elaborate construction aid had to be supported in order to secure construction sites and tower.

The station is one of the five tunnel stations of the S- Bahn route, which was built in 1966 to 1972. Unlike the other four, however, represents a railway station is Munich Isar Gate operationally and not just a stopping point, because it has four switches. These are used in the direction of Ostbahnhof changing from track 1 to track 2, in the direction Donnersbergerbrücke they enable the transition from track 2 to track 1 as the breakpoint Rosenheimerplatz is the Isar Gate Station a pure S-Bahn station without access to metro or long-distance transport. However, there are migration options to the tram lines 16 and 18 and bus 132 in 2007 a ​​day ( Mon-Fri) used 45,900 import, export and transfer passengers to the train station. The platform is 210 meters long and 96 cm high.

Munich is the Isar Gate destination station for visitors to the German Museum and the German Patent and Trademark Office, arriving by train.

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