München Isartor station

Isartor
Through station
Location	Munich, Bavaria Germany
Coordinates	48°08′06″N 11°34′55″E / 48.13500°N 11.58194°ECoordinates: 48°08′06″N 11°34′55″E / 48.13500°N 11.58194°E
Line(s)	S-Bahn trunk line (KBS 999)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	4236
DS100 code	MIS[1]
Category	4[2]
Website	stationsdatenbank.de www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1972
Traffic
Passengers	45,900 daily

Munich Isartor station is a station opened in 1972 on the Munich S-Bahn on the trunk line between Munich Central Station (German: Hauptbahnhof) and Munich East station (Ostbahnhof). It is located below Isartorplatz and the Thierschstraße/Zweibrückenstraße intersection in Munich and is named after the nearby Isartor city gate.^[3] It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.^[2]

Like all other stations on the trunk line, it has two entrances. The Western entrance leads to a vast mezzanine on the Altstadtring/Tal/Zweibrückenstraße intersection and the eastern entrance starts at the courtyard of the Breiterhof shopping arcade between Thierschstraße and Liebherrstraße.

Because the S-Bahn trunk line passes under the Isar between the stations of Isartor and Rosenheimerplatz just to the east of the station, both tubes are fitted with flood gates so that the tunnel can be sealed watertight, so that in the event of flooding of the Isar the stations lying to the west are not also flooded. There is no similar construction on the eastern side of the Isar because Rosenheimerplatz station is substantially higher than the Isar.

During the tunneling, the approximately 2,000 ton Isartor tower had to be supported by elaborate scaffolding in order to protect the site and the tower.

The station is one of the five underground stations of the S-Bahn trunk line that were built between 1966 and 1972. Unlike the other four, München Isartor is not a Haltepunkt (“halt point”, defined as having no sets of points), because it has four sets of points. These allow trains towards Munich East station and trains towards Donnersbergerbrücke to change between track 2 and track 1. Like Rosenheimerplatz station, Isartor station is a purely S-Bahn station without connection to the U-Bahn or long-distance services. Transfer facilities exist to tram lines 16 and 18^[4] and to the bus route 132. In 2007, the station was used daily (Mon-Fri) by 45,900 passengers, entering, exiting and transferring. The platform is 210 metres long and 96 cm high.^[5] The station is not barrier-free for the disabled. Isartor is also the only two stations with in island platform not arranged in Spanish solution, the other one is München Rosenheimer Platz.

Isartor station is near the Deutsches Museum and the German Patent and Trademark Office.

S-Bahn services

Notes

1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
2. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
3. "Map of the station area, showing S-Bahn, tram and bus stops" (PDF) (in German). MVV. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
4. "Munich tram network" (PDF). MVG. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
5. "Platform information on München Isartor station" (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 17 March 2013.

External links

• "Munich S-Bahn/U-Bahn line map" (PDF-file; 221 kB). MVV. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
• "Map of the station area, showing S-Bahn, tram and bus stops" (PDF-Datei; 80 kB) (in German). MVV. Retrieved 17 March 2013.