Garching bei München | |
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 Garching | |
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Location of Garching bei München within Munich district  | |
 Location of Garching bei München | |
  Garching bei München  Garching bei München | |
| Coordinates:48°15′N11°39′E / 48.250°N 11.650°E /48.250; 11.650 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Upper Bavaria |
| District | Munich |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–26) | Dietmar Gruchmann (SPD) |
| Area | |
• Total | 28.17 km2 (10.88 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 481 m (1,578 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[1] | |
• Total | 17,577 |
| • Density | 624.0/km2 (1,616/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 85748 |
| Dialling codes | 089 |
| Vehicle registration | M |
| Website | www |
Garching bei München (German:[ˈɡaʁçɪŋbaɪˈmʏnçn̩]ⓘ,lit. 'Garching near Munich') orGarching is atown inBavaria, nearMunich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments, located atCampus Garching.
Garching was small Bavarian village, until theFree State of Bavaria decided to implement a technology and urban planning policy wherebyscience should be clustered north ofMunich. Thisurban planning policy was in line with the principles advanced by the International Congress of Modernist Architects (CIAM) in the 1933Athens Charter. Garching was redeveloped in three spatially separated parts, to cover the urban functions of industry, habitation, and research. In 1959 a new residential quarter forMax Planck Society employees was constructed. In 1960 theMax Planck Institute for Plasma Physics was established in Garching.[2]
In 1963Technical University of Munich (TUM) published plans, whereby some TUM institutes would be moved to Garching.[3] TheMax Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and theInstitute for Radiochemistry were both established in Garching in 1964. In 1966 theBavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities established theWalther Meißner Institute for Low Temperature Research in Garching. In 1967 the TUM and theLudwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) established a joint accelerator laboratory in Garching. In the same year the TUM moved its department of chemistry and its department of biology to Garching. The industry zone of Garching was built up inGarching-Hochbruck.[4] However, Garching only promoted itself as science city, by incorporating the localnuclear reactor, affectionately known as "atomic egg", in the official coat of arms in 1967.[5]
After World War II the scientific publishing business started off slowly and had to be relaunched.[6] A photojournalist lamented, that "photographers would rather go visit the kampas, the dangerous natives on the banks of theUcayali River, than ProfessorHeisenberg in theMax Planck Institute."[7]
The town has four districts:
Garching is part of theNordallianz, a group of 8 towns and cities situated north ofMunich.
The town is at48°15′N11°39′E / 48.250°N 11.650°E /48.250; 11.650, near the riverIsar and theBundesautobahn 9.
TheMunich U-Bahn line U6 connects the city with the stationsGarching-Hochbrück,Garching andGarching-Forschungszentrum (Garching Science Campus).
Several research and scientific educational institutions are based in Garching, including:
Garching bei München istwinned with:
The town's football clubVfR Garching, formed in 1921, experienced its greatest success in 2014 when it won promotion to theRegionalliga Bayern for the first time.
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