Garching-Forschungszentrum (Munich U-Bahn)

The underground station Garching-Forschungszentrum the Munich U -Bahn opened on 14 October 2006 and is located in the city of Garching, a suburb of Munich. In the Garching Research Center is among other things the campus of the Technical University of Munich, Institute of the Max Planck Society as well as other research and teaching facilities.

The station is the terminus of Munich U6 and is about seven meters below the research center in Garching. There are no scheduled band, but the name was written on the signs on the platform. The rear track walls are made of mirrors, where 26 picture panels are attached, represent important inventions of famous people with respect to Munich (eg Albert Einstein, Rudolf Diesel, Max Planck ). The 26 panels are alternately melon yellow, decorated in blue and green and have a size of about eight times three meters. They were designed by the Munich design agency Haak & Nakat. The honor of Claude Dornier and Messerschmitt with boards dissolved ahead of the opening of some controversy, as both inserting during the Second World War concentration camp prisoners in their works. The platform is designed with granite counter tops and is illuminated by 12 chandeliers in which the lamps are arranged in a star shape. The ceiling is made of concrete, in a wave-like relief is milled. Behind the station are not as usual a parking area, but only a few meters of track, serving as Durchrutschweg. A few hundred meters south of the station, the route to the surface and runs towards Garching where it disappears again in a tunnel. The station has three sunrises. The center is equipped with an elevator, while at the two outputs on the southern or the northern end of the platform in each case an escalator is installed next to the stairs. All of them lead to an open area in the center of the research area. The three station sunrises each with a green roofed concrete structure which can be accessed from the rear.