Garching bei München or Garching is a city in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments. 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 / 48.250; 11.650, near the River Isar and the A9 autobahn. The Munich U-Bahn metro line 6 connects the city with the stations Garching-Hochbrück, Garching and Garching-Forschungszentrum.
Like many places near Munich, Garching bei München is a reasonably safe town. Various restaurants are scattered through town, but mainly in the center. The town is quiet and quaint, and has virtually no nightlife. However, there is a constant flux of scientists visiting the city because of the many scientific research institutes and scientific experiments located there, like the linear accelerator, the research reactor, ESO headquarters. Since parts of the Technische Universität München moved to Garching, many students frequent the city. The first nuclear research reactor of Garching, nicknamed Atomei (nuclear egg) made it into the citys coat of arms, and started the process leading to today's accumulation of research institutes. A number of roads and places are named after scientists, mathematicians and technical innovators, like for example "Carl-Von-Linde-Strasse", "Dieselstrasse", "Einsteinstrasse", "Eulerweg", "Heisenbergstrasse", "Max-Planck-Strasse", "Röntgenstrasse", "Schrödingerweg".
Districts
The town has four districts:
- Garching
- Dirnismaning
- Hochbrück
- Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum (University and Research Centre) - formerly known as Forschungsinstitute (Research Institutes)
Educational and research institutes
Several research and scientific educational institutions are based in Garching, including:
- Departments of the Technische Universität München (TUM)
- physics
- the research reactor FRM-II
- semiconductor physics and engineering (Walter Schottky Institute)
- chemistry [1]
- mechanical engineering [2]
- mathematics [3]
- computer science [4]
- Max Planck Institutes:
- Part of the physics department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
- Headquarters of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
- Federal Research Institute for Food Chemistry (DFA)
- Walter Meißner Institute (WMI) of the BAdW (low-temperature physics)
- Bavarian Center of Applied Energy Research (ZAE)
- Reactor safety research [5]
- General Electric Global Research Center
- Leibniz-Rechenzentrum [6] of the BAdW (central computing facilities for the Munich universities and other research institutes)
- BMW M GmbH - high-performance/motorsport vehicle research and development
International relations
Garching bei München is twinned with:
References
External links
- http://www.garching.de/ (Official Town Website)
- European Southern Observatory (ESO)
- Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP)
- Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ)
- Physics Department TUM
- Chemistry Department TUM
- Mechanical Engineering
- Walter Meissner Institute (WMI)
- Walter Schottky Institute (WSI)
- Research Neutron Source (FMR II)
- Federal Research Center for Food Chemistry (DFA)
- Leibniz Computer Center (LRZ)
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