München Karlsplatz station
- S- Bahn route (S1 -S8 ) ( KBS 999)
- Munich subway (U4, U5 )
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The breakpoint Karlsplatz ( Stachus) in Munich on the Karlsplatz ( Stachus) near the main railway station is one of the main transport hubs in the Bavarian capital.
Aboveground meet here on the Old Town Square almost all the tram lines MVG before Karlstor together.
The underground facilities were built as part of the S- and U -Bahn construction in the 1960s and early 1970s. Apart from the traffic areas including the building and underground car parks and loading yards for the surrounding shops and various utilities, including two diesel generators that are able to operate the building, even if it is completely separated from the municipal power grid under full load.
The routes to shopping center was sold in 2004 by the city to Stadtwerke München. This took place with Landesbank Baden- Wuerttemberg an investor who for 30 million euros by 2009 wanted to convert these two levels of the building, which is now also done.
Construction
Level -1
On the first level, a sprawling shopping mall, which was built in the late 1960s and completely renovated by 2012 extends. There are also outputs to the tram, to Neuhauser Straße, the Palace of Justice and other places around the place at the surface here.
Level -2
On the second level there is another part of the shopping center, a ticket office and withdrawals to the underground and S-Bahn. Direct access to the S -Bahn is one of the last functioning Passi meters house of 1972. This is operated since 1997 by the Munich action passengers with volunteers. Originally there were three such houses at this station where tickets were sold. One has already been reduced, the other turned into a vending machine.
Level -3 (S -Bahn )
At the third level, the Rapid Transit route (to enter the direction of travel left exit in the direction at right) runs with the lines S1- S8 from the main train station Ostbahnhof on two tracks with four platforms in Spanish solution. The platforms are covered with white wall tiles and fitted with dark blue color recognition on the columns and the conductive strips on the walls. In 2007, used daily ( Monday to Friday) 87,700 import, export and transfer passengers to stop the train. The S-Bahn platforms are 210 meters long and 96 cm high.
Level -4
On the fourth level, a mezzanine from the tram station is the subway station. Meet before the last stairs to the subway station on the west side nor the three escalators from the second basement to do so.
-5 Level (underground )
At the fifth level, the station of the subway lines U4 and U5 is also. East-west direction Here you will find the output Lenbachplatz the longest escalators of the MVV area that overcome 247 levels in 56.5 m in length, a height difference of 20.63 meters. The walls are painted with old tram car, which is reminiscent of the older Munich trams. For each direction, there are separate tubes, which are connected at the outputs with the two transverse tubes. The southern platform tube is shifted by about 20 m to the north tube to the west. Is the yellow stripe on the original route of the U4 and U5 on the wall.