knowledge Overview
A first station existed at today's site from 1848/1849; the station's history goes back to the provisional Marsfeld station of 1839. The terminus is Deutsche Bahn's third-busiest long-distance station after Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main, with around 400,000 travellers and visitors daily. Today's main hall area (tracks 11–26) dates from 1960; since 2019 the station building and station have been rebuilt as part of the Zweite Stammstrecke (second trunk line) project and station optimisation.
Services
- Long-distance rail: ICE 11, ICE 18, ICE 25, ICE 28, ICE 29, ICE 41, ICE 42; plus IC/EC (among others to Zurich and Innsbruck), TGV to Paris and Railjet to Vienna
- U-Bahn: Two stations of MVG — one for U1/U2/U7/U8 (opened 1980) and one for U4/U5 (opened 1984)
- S-Bahn: Underground trunk-line station (opened 1972) with two tracks
- Regional rail: RE/RB lines among others to Regensburg, Passau, Lindau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, departing from the Holzkirchner and Starnberger wing stations
Station layout
The terminus has 32 surface platform tracks; in addition there are two S-Bahn tunnel tracks and two U-Bahn stations. The station area covers about 760,000 m².