München-Giesing station

Giesing
Through station
Former station building seen from the tracks (2008)
Location	Giesinger Bahnhofplatz 1, Giesing, Munich, Bavaria Germany
Coordinates	48°6′37″N 11°35′47″E / 48.11028°N 11.59639°E / 48.11028; 11.59639Coordinates: 48°6′37″N 11°35′47″E / 48.11028°N 11.59639°E / 48.11028; 11.59639
Line(s)	Munich East–Deisenhofen (KBS 999.3) Munich-Giesing–Kreuzstraße (KBS 999.7)
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	4255
DS100 code	MGI
IBNR	8004148
Category	3
Website	stationsdatenbank.de www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	10 October 1898; 119 years ago (1898-10-10)
Services
Preceding station   Munich S-Bahn   Following station München St.-Martin-Straße toward Mammendorf S 3 München-Fasangarten toward Holzkirchen München St.-Martin-Straße toward Wolfratshausen S 7 München-Perlach toward Kreuzstraße Preceding station   U-Bahn   Following station Untersbergstraße toward Feldmoching U 2 Karl-Preis-Platz toward Messestadt-Ost Untersbergstraße toward Olympia-Einkaufszentrum U 7 Karl-Preis-Platz toward Neuperlach Zentrum
Location
Giesing Location within Bavaria

Munich-Giesing station (German: Bahnhof München-Giesing) is a railway station in the district of Obergiesing in the Bavarian state capital of Munich and is a station of the Munich S-Bahn and the Munich U-Bahn. It is located on the Munich East–Deisenhofen railway, the Munich-Giesing–Kreuzstraße railway, which branches off to the east from the Munich East–Deisenhofen line next to the Perlacher Forst cemetery, and the second trunk line of the Munich U-Bahn. The station is served by about 280 S-Bahn services each day.

The Munich-Giesing station was built in 1898 on the newly built Munich East–Deisenhofen railway. The station was at this time a little more than a kilometre from the settlement of Giesing and was surrounded by meadows and fields. The former municipality of Giesing had already been incorporated in Munich since 1854. In 1904, a line via Perlach to Kreuzstraße was built; this used the existing line from Munich East station via Giesing station to the Perlacher Forst cemetery, where it branched off to the east.

A tram depot was built next to the station in 1912; this was used until 1972, when it was decommissioned and demolished. In the late 1920s and during the Nazi period, Giesing grew so that large blocks of flats were built in the area near the station and in the fields and meadows along Deisenhofener Straße to central Giesing. In addition, the lines were electrified at this time. On 28 May 1972, the station was integrated in the Munich S-Bahn.

In 1985, the station building became one of the last suburban railway stations in Munich to receive monument protection and since 2004 it has been used as a district cultural centre under the name of Giesinger Bahnhof and as the Gleiswirtschaft restaurant. On 18 October 1980, the second main line of the Munich U-Bahn was opened with the Giesing U-Bahn station under the S-Bahn station. The integrated bus terminal in front of the station was redesigned and in the course of the reconstruction was moved temporarily into the street next to the railway line. In mid-2009, a health centre and a retirement home were completed at Giesing station. Since 2010, the bus station has returned to the station forecourt.