The Campus Garching (german: Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum Garching) is a
campus
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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 ...
and a number of other research institutes, located around 10 km north of
Munich
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in
Garching
Garching bei München (''Garching near Munich'') 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 ...
. At the same time, it constitutes a district of the city. With more than 7,500 employees and around 17,000 students, it is one of the largest centers for science, research and teaching in Germany.
Facilities
The Campus Garching is the largest campus 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 ...
.
It is joined by numerous research facilities, including four
Max Planck Institutes
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (german: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. ...
.
Technical University of Munich
![MI-Gebäude der TU München Magistrale2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/MI-Geb%C3%A4ude_der_TU_M%C3%BCnchen_Magistrale2.JPG)
Five 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.
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are located in Garching:
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TUM Department of Chemistry
The TUM School of Natural Sciences (NAT) is a school of the Technical University of Munich, established in 2022 by the merger of various former departments. As of 2022, it is structured into the Department of Biosciences, the Department of Chemist ...
*
TUM Department of Informatics
The TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) is a school of the Technical University of Munich, established in 2022 by the merger of three former departments. As of 2022, it is structured into the Department of Mathematics, the ...
*
TUM Department of Mathematics
The TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) is a school of the Technical University of Munich, established in 2022 by the merger of three former departments. As of 2022, it is structured into the Department of Mathematics, the ...
*
TUM Department of Mechanical Engineering
The TUM School of Engineering and Design is a school of the Technical University of Munich, established in 2021 by the merger of four departments. As of 2022, it is structured into the Department of Aerospace & Geodesy, the Department of Architec ...
*
TUM Department of Physics
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A new €540 million, 45,000 m
2 building for the
TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) is a school of the Technical University of Munich, established in 2022 by the merger of three former departments. As of 2022, it is structured into the Department of Mathematics, the ...
is currently in construction and the department is scheduled to move by 2025.
Research centers include:
*
FRM II
The Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (Forschungsreaktor München II or FRM II) (german: Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz) is a leading German research reactor and neutron source, named in honor of the physicist Heinz Ma ...
(Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz)
* Munich School of Engineering
* Munich School of BioEngineering
*
TUM Institute for Advanced Study
The TUM Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS) is a scientific institution of the Technische Universität München, conducting research in science, engineering and humanities. Its building is located on its Garching campus.
Projects
The proje ...
*
Walter Schottky Institute
The Walter Schottky Institute (WSI) (german: Walter-Schottky-Institut) is a research center at the Technical University of Munich, dedicated to the physics of semiconductors. Established in 1988, it is located on its Garching campus. It is named ...
* TUM Graduate School
* Catalysis Research Center
* International Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Additionally, TUM operates a meteorological measurement tower, the
Oskar von Miller Tower
The Oskar von Miller Tower (german: Oskar-von-Miller-Turm) is a tower for meteorological measurements located in Garching, Germany. Built in 2007–2009, it is named after Oskar von Miller and operated by the Technical University of Munich.
A ...
, and the
TUM Fire Department
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on the campus.
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
The
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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 ...
has numerous facilities on the Campus Garching, including seven chairs of the Faculty of Physics and sections of the Faculty of Geology.
Max Planck Society
Four research institutes of the
Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (german: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. ...
operate on the Campus Garching:
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Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) is a research institute located in Garching, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is one of many scientific research institutes belonging to the Max Planck Society.
The MPA is widely conside ...
*
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Germany.
In 1991 the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics split up into the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Ph ...
*
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (german: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, IPP) is a physics institute investigating the physical foundations of a fusion power plant.
The IPP is an institute of the Max Planck Society, part of th ...
*
Max Planck Institute of 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, w ...
A new building for the
Max Planck Institute for Physics
The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) is a physics institute in Munich, Germany that specializes in high energy physics and astroparticle physics. It is part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and is also known as the Werner Heisenberg Institu ...
is currently in construction and the institute is expected to move in 2022.
Other research institutes
![Garching Universita](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Garching_Universita.jpg)
The headquarters of the
European Southern Observatory
The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, commonly referred to as the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental research organisation made up of 16 mem ...
and its
Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre are located on the campus.
The
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (german: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledg ...
operates the
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 ...
, one of the fastest
supercomputer
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s in Europe, and the on the campus.
Five research clusters are located on the campus:
*
Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich
The Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) is a German Excellence Universities, cluster of excellence in sciences located in Munich. It is an association of research groups of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Technica ...
*
*
Nanosystems Initiative Munich
*
Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology
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* Excellence Cluster Universe
Other research institutes include:
*
EUROfusion
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*
Companies
Companies that have established offices on the campus include:
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General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable energ ...
*
T-Systems
T-Systems International GmbH (T-Systems) is an internationally operating service provider for information technologies and digital transformation. The company is part of Deutsche Telekom AG and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.
As of 2012, T ...
*
Caverion
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Infrastructure
![2017 Galileo TU Muenchen Garching 2017 Dräxlmaier Group](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/2017_Galileo_TU_Muenchen_Garching_2017_Dr%C3%A4xlmaier_Group.jpg)
In recent years, the Garching campus has started developing into a
campus university
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. In 2019, a new €45 million canteen opened, capable of serving 7,300 meals a day. The first student residences are currently in construction.
A 36,000 m
2 multipurpose building named ''GALILEO'' is in the final stages of construction. When completed, it will house offices, stores, restaurants, a
church
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* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Chris ...
, a hotel and
convention center
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, and guest apartments. ''GALILEO'' is being developed as a
public–private partnership
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between the
state of Bavaria and private investors.
A
Hyperloop
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test track is currently being built on the campus, following the successes of the student team
WARR at the
SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and a satellite communications corporation headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the stated goal of ...
Hyperloop pod competition
The Hyperloop Pod Competition was an annual competition sponsored by SpaceX from 2015 to 2019 in which a number of student and non-student teams participate to design—and for some, build—a scale model, subscale prototype transport vehicle in ...
s, where they won all races.
Geography
The ''Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum Garching'' is a district of the city of
Garching
Garching bei München (''Garching near Munich'') 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 ...
, rather than a single legal entity. It is located on the left bank of the
Isar
The Isar is a river in Tyrol, Austria, and Bavaria, Germany, which is not navigable for watercraft above raft size. Its source is in the Karwendel range of the Alps in Tyrol; it enters Germany near Mittenwald and flows through Bad Tölz, Munic ...
, about 2 to 3 kilometers northeast of Garching's city center, about 17 kilometers north-northeast of the city center of
Munich
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, and about 16 kilometers southwest of
Munich Airport
Munich International Airport- Franz Josef Strauß (german: link=no, Flughafen München) is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria. It is the second-busiest airport in Germany in terms of passenger traffic after Frankfurt A ...
. Located in the
Munich gravel plain
The Munich gravel plain (german: Münchner Schotterebene) is an outwash plain in Upper Bavaria, Germany, formed during Late Pleistocene glacial periods. Characterized by its very wide extension, it comprises sandur terraces and the floodplain of ...
, the campus' elevation is flat throughout.
Two
stream
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s also run from south to north, fed by the
Schwabinger Bach and the . Both streams join northeast of the campus and flow into the
Isar
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soon after.
Transport
![GarchingForschAußenansicht](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/GarchingForschAu%C3%9Fenansicht.JPG)
The campus is located near the ''Garching-Nord'' exit of the
Bundesautobahn 9
is an autobahn in Germany, connecting Berlin and Munich via Leipzig and Nuremberg. It is the fifth longest autobahn spanning .
Route
The northern terminus of the A 9 is at the Potsdam interchange, where it merges into the A 10, ...
. By bicycle, it can be reached from Munich via the ''Isarradweg ''(Isar Cycle Path) without road crossings; a connection to the is planned. The streets on campus are named after important scientists:
Hans Kopfermann
Hans Kopfermann (26 April 1895, in Breckenheim near Wiesbaden – 28 January 1963, in Heidelberg) was a German atomic and nuclear physicist. He devoted his entire career to spectroscopic investigations, and he did pioneering work in measuring ...
,
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild (; 9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer.
Schwarzschild provided the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-r ...
,
Ludwig Prandtl
Ludwig Prandtl (4 February 1875 – 15 August 1953) was a German fluid dynamicist, physicist and aerospace scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of rigorous systematic mathematical analyses which he used for underlying the science of ...
,
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (; 20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics, and the statistical explanation of the second law of thermodyn ...
,
Walther Meissner
Fritz Walther Meissner (German: ''Meißner'') (16 December 1882 – 16 November 1974) was a German technical physicist.
Meissner was born in Berlin to Waldemar Meissner and Johanna Greger. He studied mechanical engineering and physics at t ...
,
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. He is remembered for ...
,
James Franck
James Franck (; 26 August 1882 – 21 May 1964) was a German physicist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom". He completed his doctorate in ...
, and
Ernst Otto Fischer
Ernst Otto Fischer (; 10 November 1918 – 23 July 2007) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.
Early life
He was born in Solln, a borough of Munich. His parents were Karl T. F ...
.
For a long time, accessibility to the campus by
public transport
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was problematic. The Technical University of Munich operated its own shuttle bus between its main campus and the Garching campus. Public buses ran from the
Studentenstadt U-Bahn station, and later from
Garching-Hochbrück. Those who missed the last bus in the early evening had to rely on hitchhiking to get home, which earned the campus the nicknames ''Garchosibirsk'' and ''Novogarchinsk.''
Since 2006, the campus has been connected to 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) ...
network with the
Garching-Forschungszentrum station, with an interval of 5 minutes during rush hour. It takes around half an hour to get to the city center.
History
![Atomei - Forschungsreaktor München I (FRM I)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Atomei_-_Forschungsreaktor_M%C3%BCnchen_I_%28FRM_I%29.JPG)
In 1957, the first German
research reactor
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, the 4 MW , marked the beginning of the Garching campus. In operation until 2000, its domed building in the shape of an "atomic egg" became a landmark of the city of Garching, and has been listed as a historical monument.
Located right next to it, its successor
Forschungsreaktor München II
The Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (Forschungsreaktor München II or FRM II) (german: Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz) is a leading German research reactor and neutron source, named in honor of the physicist Heinz Ma ...
has been in operation since 2004.
The
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (german: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, IPP) is a physics institute investigating the physical foundations of a fusion power plant.
The IPP is an institute of the Max Planck Society, part of th ...
was established on the campus in 1960. In 1980, the
European Southern Observatory
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relocated from
Geneva
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to its new building on the Garching campus.
Since the 1960s, a relocation of major parts 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 ...
to Garching has been discussed. Until the decision to build a
U-Bahn
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connection, the proposal had been repeatedly called into question. The
Department of Physics
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Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
moved to Garching in 1970, the
Department of Chemistry in 1978, the
Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1997 and the departments of
Informatics
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and
Mathematics
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in 2002. A new building for the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is currently in construction and the department is scheduled to move by 2025.
References
External links
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