History
The current site, then situated outside the city walls, saw the first railway station in 1839, with the line from Munich to Lochhausen opening on 1 September. On 4 October 1840, the Lochhausen line was extended to Augsburg. This first station was short-lived, however, as it fell victim to a fire on 4 April 1847.
The station was rebuilt from 1847 to 1849 as the Centralbahnhof according to plans by Friedrich Bürklein and reopened on 22 September 1849. Further lines were soon added to the station; to Landshut (in 1858), Nuremberg in (1859) and Rosenheim in (1871). In order to cope with the new levels of traffic, the station saw a major rebuild from 1876 to 1884.
In 1893, an outlying station was added to accommodate trains for the line to Starnberg. Another set of tracks was added at the opposite end of the station for trains to Holzkirchen in 1915.
The station was renamed München Hauptbahnhof in 1904. It sustained heavy damage from allied bombing in 1945 and the damaged train shed was torn down in 1949. From 1958 to 1960, the station was rebuilt integrating parts of the old station. The new train shed was built in a contemporary 1960s style by Krupp, spanning tracks 11 to 26.
From 1967 onwards, the S-Bahn (subway) tunnels and the München Hbf (tief) station which serves them were built underneath the station, opening on 28 April 1972, just before the 1972 Summer Olympics. The U-Bahn stations were opened in 1980 and 1984.
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