Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
(Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), München
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How to reach the Institute ...
... from Munich's airport
using public transport
To get from the airport to the Institute by public transport,
you may chose to use a bus or the subway connection.
In the former case, Lufthansa provides a shuttle connecting the airport to the Main Railway
Station (Hauptbahnof, 40 minutes) and Munich Nord (Nordfriedhof, 25 minutes). From the latter
you have a direct connection to subway U6 (a different ticket is needed!).
Take direction Garching-Hochbrück or Fröttmaning and get off at "Studentenstadt"
after 3 minutes.
The Institute may then easily be reached by a short walk (see map).
The bus fares are 9.50 € (one way) or 15 € for a return trip.
Further information can be found in this brochure, or at this website.
For the U-bahn ticket, see below.
If you choose the subway connection, you need to pay for for
4 "zones", the basic fee unit in Munich's public transport system
(see remarks on public transport).
This may be achieved in several ways, since you can buy
- a single ticket ("Einzelfahrkarte", 8.40- €)
- a daily ticket for the entire network ("Gesamtnetz Tageskarte" 9.00- €);
it allows to move freely in Munich area and sorroundings all the day.
- a so-called stripe or multi-journey ticket, respectively
("Streifenkarte", containing 10 fields each worth 0.95 €) and
stamping the 8th stripe - 2 stripes for each zone. You might
use the remaining two stripes later, e.g. for one inner-Munich trip.
For two to five adults travelling together, the best choice is however to buy
a Partner day ticket ("Partner Tageskarte", 16 €).
The two lines connecting the Airport to downtown are S-Bahn S1 and S8
| S-Bahn S1 | S-Bahn S8
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| Time table: at 4:35am and from 05:35am until 00:15am every 20 minutes
| Time table: at 4:05am and from 08:05am until 01:05am every 20 minutes
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| Don't forget to have your ticket stamped by the
blue device at the top of the escalators!
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| Change after roughly 45 minutes at "Marienplatz" leaving the train
on the right hand side and proceeding by escalator to the lowest level of the
subway station.
| Change after roughly 35 minutes at "Marienplatz" leaving the train
on the right hand side and proceeding by escalator to the lowest level of the
subway station.
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| Take the subway U6 (blue label) direction:
Garching-Hochbrück or Fröttmaning
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Get off at "Studentenstadt" after
11 minutes.
The Institute may then easily be reached by a short walk (see map below).
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You may use the following railway network of Munich's metro lines
to retrace your itinerary (pdf-file, 195kB)
Further information on time-tables, tickets and prices can be obtained directly at the
MVV-website
How to reach the Institute from subway stop "Studentenstadt":
A
more detailed map of the Institutes' site is also available.
If instead you take a taxi from the airport, you should ask for:
"München - Freimann, MPI für Physik, Föhringer Ring 6"
This will cost about 50,- €! Driving time: 20 - 25 minutes.
... from Munich's main station
arriving by train
To get from Munich Hauptbahnhof to the Institute, you need to pay for
one "zone", the basic fee unit in Munich's public transportation system
(single ticket 2.10 € or two fields of a multi-journey ticket)
- Take any S-Bahn direction "Ostbahnhof".
Don't forget to stamp your ticket!
- Change at the second stop "Marienplatz", take the escalators to the
lowest level and change to Undeground U6, proceeding as described above.
Coming in by car on one of the motorways (Autobahn)
to Munich
A global map of highways surrounding Munich together with a magnified view
of the vicinity of the MPI is given in the following.
Some remarks concerning Munich's public
transport system (MVV)
Public transport in Munich is highly developed, secure by
international standards and reaches far out into the surroundings.
Just to make matters complicated for visitors, Munich and
surroundings are divided up into four zones (where the urban area of
Munich is covered by one zone), used for calculating the price of a
journey (the relevant quantity
being the number of zones your journey passes through). Tickets
entitle you to use bus, tramway, subway and
S-Bahn or any combination of them; you may change among them
freely as long as you continue to move in the same general
direction (when going on a round trip, you have to pay for each
direction separately!), and you may even interrupt your journey and
continue it later as long as you arrive at your destination
within three hours from stamping your ticket.
There exist basically two types of tickets:
Single tickets (Einzelfahrkarte) and multi-journey tickets
(Streifenkarte); the latter coming
in blue for adults or in red for children aged 6-14.
For a longer stay in Munich, a personalized transport card with a weekly or
monthly ticket ("IsarCard") is usually the cheapest
way for travelling around in Munich; the price depends on where exactly
you live, and the validity is restricted to a few finer-grained zones
chosen so as to connect your residence to the Institute.
Ask local colleagues and secretaries for additional information
and/or have a look at the MVV website.
Important: the tickets have to be stamped at the beginning of your
journey, i.e. before entering the first train or immediately after
entering the first bus or tramway car.
Having a multi-journey ticket, count the number of fields needed,
bend the remaining fields away from you, and insert the ticket
into the stamping device with the last field for the current
journey facing upward (this one will receive the stamp).
For example when you start with a fresh ticket
and need two fields (which is the maximum number of fields needed for journeys
within Munich's urban area), stamp field number 2:
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+
| 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10| ____\|
| | | | | | | | | | | /|
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--------+
^--- bend ticket here
^--- stamp this field
The next time you need two fields, stamp field number 4, etc.
Several people journeying together may use the
same multi-journey ticket, but it has to be stamped separately
for each person.
The blue stamping devices are positioned at the entrance of each
station and inside busses and tramway cars.
Again, only a stamped ticket entitles you to use the transportation system.
For multi-journey tickets the rule is: two fields per zone, up to
a maximum of 8 fields for 4 (or more) zones.
Since the inner region consists only of one zone, all trips within
cost 2 fields.
As an example, the main station and the Institute are in
the innermost region, but the airport and the campus at Garching are not.
All tickets are available from automatic vending machines
at the entrance of each station, from bus drivers
or from one of the 400 kiosks all over the city.
Tramway drivers only sell single tickets; take the rear car of a
tramway to find a vending machine.
For the updated fares, please consult the MVV website
PS:
"Kein Verkauf" means: "No sale"!
Look for the letters: MVV
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