U-Bahn München: 55/100 Max-Weber-Platz

Munich underground: 55/100 Max-Weber-Platz

Max-Weber-Platz underground station is one of the most important interchanges of Munich's public transportation system on the right side of the river Isar. In addition to the mint green U4 and brown U5 underground lines, several trams and many buses stop overground. Outbound, Max-Weber-Platz station is also the last stop before the U4 line branches off to the north-east to stop at Böhmerwaldplatz and Arabellapark, while the U5 continues south-east to e.g. Innsbrucker Ring. The blip shows two leaving trains: a south-eastbound U5 train to Neuperlach Zentrum in the foreground, and a westbound U5 train to Laimer Platz in the background.

Alongside Implerstraße and Kolumbusplatz, Max-Weber-Platz station is one of only three three-pronged stops. This is always the layout of choice, whenever two lines into town are merging onto one track.

The station was opened in November 1988, along with a bunch of other stations like its western neighbour Lehel, and all eastern stations of the U4 line.

(The underground station is named after the square above, which in turn in 1905 was named after a fairly unknown 19th century Munich politican by the name of Max Weber. It took until 1998, that the square was additionally dedicated to the rather famous and highly influential German sociologist, philosopher and political economist Max Weber, who died in Munich in 1920.)