Bahnhof Pasing

Bahnhof Pasing stands in the west of Munich, and in the city only the Hauptbahnhof and München Ost are larger. S-Bahn, regional and long-distance trains all call here. Inside you find a travel centre, food outlets, lifts and ramps for step-free access. Its history reaches back to the first years of rail in Munich.

The first building here went up in 1847, designed by Friedrich Bürklein, an architect who also worked on other Munich landmarks. It began as a plain brick structure, and the station grew as the town of Pasing grew. In 1873 a new and larger station followed, designed by George Frederick Seidel, and this heritage-listed building still stands. Where several railway lines cross, the station became a busy hub. By the early twentieth century it was selling more than a million tickets a year. As Pasing became a college town and joined Munich's metropolitan area, the station kept pace.

Seidel's building carries on in daily service, now with LCD screens and electronic signalling alongside. The trains still come and go beneath the original cast-iron bars of the platform hall.