Garching
Garching bei München | |
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 Garching | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Garching bei München  | |
  Garching bei München  Garching bei München | |
| Coordinates: 48°15′N 11°39′E / 48.250°N 11.650°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Upper Bavaria |
| District | Munich |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Dietmar Gruchmann (SPD) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 28.16 km2 (10.87 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 481 m (1,578 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[1] | |
| • Total | 17,577 |
| • Density | 620/km2 (1,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 85748 |
| Dialling codes | 089 |
| Vehicle registration | M |
| Website | Official website |
Garching bei München or Garching is a town in Bavaria, Germany, near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments on its campus. It became a city on 14 September 1990.
Location
The town is at 48°15′N 11°39′E / 48.250°N 11.650°E, near the river Isar and the Bundesautobahn 9.
Garching has a number of scientific research institutes and scientific experiment facilities located in the city, including a linear accelerator and a research nuclear reactor. The nuclear research reactor, nicknamed Atomei (atomic egg) appears in the city's coat of arms, and started the process leading to an accumulation of research institutes. A number of roads and places in the city are named after scientists, mathematicians and technical innovators such as Carl von Linde, Rudolf Diesel, Albert Einstein, Leonhard Euler, Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck, Wilhelm Röntgen, and Erwin Schrödinger.
Districts
The town has four districts:
- Garching
- Dirnismaning
- Hochbrück
- Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum (University and Research Centre)
Transport
The Munich U-Bahn line U6 connects the city with the stations Garching-Hochbrück, Garching and Garching-Forschungszentrum.
Educational and research institutes
Several research and scientific educational institutions are based in Garching, including:
- Departments of the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
- Physics
- FRM-II research reactor
- semiconductor physics and engineering (Walter Schottky Institute)
- Chemistry
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mathematics
- Informatics
- Max Planck Institutes:
- Part of the physics department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
- Headquarters of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
- ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre at ESO Headquarters
- Federal Research Institute for Food Chemistry (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittelchemie; DFA)
- Walther Meißner Institute (WMI) of the BAdW (low-temperature physics)
- Bavarian Center of Applied Energy Research (ZAE)
- Reactor safety research [1]
- General Electric Global Research Center
- Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
- BMW M GmbH - high-performance/motorsport vehicle research and development
Relations
Garching is part of the Nordallianz, a group of 8 towns situated between the city of Munich and Munich Airport.
Garching bei München is twinned with:
Sport
The town's football club VfR Garching, formed in 1921, experienced its greatest success in 2014 when it won promotion to the Regionalliga Bayern for the first time.
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