Garching bei München (''Garching near Munich'') or Garching is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Bavaria
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, Germany, near
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments on its
campus
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. It became a city on 14 September 1990.
Location
The town is at , near the river
Isar
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and the
Bundesautobahn 9.
Garching has a number of scientific research institutes and scientific experiment facilities located in the city, including a
linear accelerator
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and a research nuclear reactor. The
nuclear research reactor
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, 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
Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde (11 June 1842 – 16 November 1934) was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, whi ...
,
Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (, ; 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German inventor and Mechanical engineering, mechanical engineer who is famous for having invented the diesel engine, which burns diesel fuel; both are named after him.
...
,
Albert Einstein
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,
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...
,
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Karl Heisenberg () (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series ...
,
Max Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (, ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical p ...
,
Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (; ; 27 March 184510 February 1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achiev ...
, and
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (, ; ; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as or , was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist with Irish citizenship who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theory ...
.
Districts
The town has four districts:
* Garching
* Dirnismaning
* Hochbrück
*
Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum (University and Research Centre)
Transport
The
Munich U-Bahn
The Munich U-Bahn (german: U-Bahn München) is an electric rail rapid transit network in Munich, Germany. The system began operation in 1971, and is operated by the municipally owned Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG; Munich Transport Company) ...
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
The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences.
Establis ...
(TUM)
**
Physics
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**
FRM-II research reactor
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** semiconductor physics and engineering (Walter Schottky Institute)
**
Chemistry
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**
Mechanical Engineering
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**
Mathematics
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**
Informatics
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*
Max Planck Institute
Max or MAX may refer to:
Animals
* Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog
* Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE)
* Max (gorilla) ...
s:
**
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
**
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
**
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
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The IPP is an institute of the Max Planck Society, part of th ...
(IPP)
**
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
The Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics (abbreviation: MPQ; german: Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik) is a part of the Max Planck Society which operates 87 research facilities in Germany.
The institute is located in Garching, Germany, ...
(MPQ)
**
Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
Max or MAX may refer to:
Animals
* Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog
* Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE)
* Max (gorilla) (1 ...
(MPCDF)
* Part of the physics department of the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...
* Headquarters of the
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
**
ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre at
ESO
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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 researc
*
General Electric
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Global Research Center
*
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) (german: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum) is a supercomputing centre on the Campus Garching near Munich, operated by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Among other IT services, it provides supercomputer ...
*
BMW M
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BMW M ("M" for "motorsport") was initially created to facilitate BMW's racing program, which was very successful in the ...
GmbH - high-performance/motorsport vehicle research and development
Relations
Garching is part of the
Nordallianz
The NordAllianz - Metro Region Munich North (German: ''NordAllianz - Metropolregion München Nord'') is a group of 8 towns situated between the city of Munich and Munich Airport. Its members are
Eching,
Garching,
Hallbergmoos,
Ismaning,
Neufah ...
, a group of 8 towns situated between the city of Munich and Munich Airport.
Garching bei München is
twinned with:
*
Lørenskog
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(
Norway
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)
*
Radeberg
Radeberg is a small town in the district of Bautzen, Saxony, Germany. It is located approximately 20 kilometres north-east of Dresden. The town has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and an old castle.
History
Radeberg was mentioned ...
(
Germany
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)
Sport
The town's football club
VfR Garching
The VfR Garching is a German association football club from the city of Garching, Bavaria.
The club's greatest success has been promotion to the Regionalliga Bayern in 2014, the fourth tier of the German football league system.
History
For most ...
, formed in 1921, experienced its greatest success in 2014 when it won promotion to the
Regionalliga Bayern
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for the first time.
References
External links
Official Town WebsiteEuropean 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 TUMChemistry Department TUMMechanical EngineeringWalter 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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