Giselastraße underground station
| Giselastrasse | |
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 Giselastraße underground station with type B entering |
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| Basic data | |
| District | Schwabing |
| Opened | 19th October 1971 |
| Tracks (platform) | 2 ( central platform ) |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 9 '23 " N , 11 ° 35' 3" E |
| use | |
| Stretch) | Trunk line 1 |
| Line (s) |
 
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| Switching options |
 54 58 68 154
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The Giselastraße subway station is a train station of the Munich subway . It is located in the Schwabing district of the Bavarian capital, Munich, and is served by the U3 and U6 lines.
history
The station was opened on October 19, 1971 together with the first Munich underground line U6. The U3 has been running here since it opened on May 8, 1972. Like all stations that opened on the same date, it was designed by Paolo Nestler .
location
The station is under Leopoldstrasse . The eponymous Giselastraße joins this at the level of the train station. The street is named after Archduchess Gisela of Austria , a daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth . She married Leopold Prince of Bavaria , son of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria and Auguste Ferdinande of Austria , her second cousin, on April 20, 1873 in Vienna . On the occasion of the wedding in 1873, Giselastraße was named after her.
Directly at the southern entrance is the Leopoldpark with the faculty for psychology and education (the so-called “pig's den”) of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . The Siegestor is located further south , and the English Garden with the Chinese Tower is within walking distance .
Station complex
construction
The station has two tracks with a central platform. The vault is supported by a row of columns. At the southern end of the platform, an escalator and a fixed staircase lead over a barrier floor to the surface, both to Giselastrasse and Leopoldstrasse. At the north end an escalator had to give way to an elevator. There is another locking level here, via which Leopoldstrasse, Martiusstrasse and Franz-Joseph-Strasse can be reached.
layout
The back track walls are made of gray-blue fiber cement panels, as is the case with many of Munich's oldest underground stations. The hexagonal columns are covered with red tiles. The ceiling is also made of fiber cement panels that are interrupted for the fluorescent tubes. The floor is covered with a black Isar pebble motif.
traffic
The U3 and U6 run in both directions every 5 minutes during rush hour. Otherwise, the station can be reached within 10 minutes by a trip on the U6, one of the U3 or another trip on the U6 between Münchner Freiheit and Harras.
The Giselastraße bus stop is on Martiusstraße at the north end of the train station. Metrobus line 54 and city bus line 154 stop here. The latter also serves the Georgenstraße stop at the station's southern exit. Both stops are integrated into the Munich night network with several lines.
Planning
The plans for the U9 clasp provide that the new line will branch off at Giselastraße station. For this, the station would have to be expanded to four tracks.
See also
Web links
- Further information at www.u-bahn-muenchen.de
- Area map and further information about the train station at mvv-muenchen.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Dollinger: Die Münchner Straßeennamen, 7th, updated edition, Munich 2010, p. 104.