Garching bei München

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Categories: Towns in Bavaria | Munich district

Also spelled "Garching bei Muenchen" (without "ü").

Also see: Garching an der Alz in Altötting district.

Garching
Coat of arms	Location
Image:Garching b Muenchen seal.gif	Image:Karte Deutschland.png Image:Red pog2.svg
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Upper Bavaria
District	Munich
Mayor	Manfred Solbrig
Basic statistics
Area	28.16 km² (10.9 sq mi)
Elevation	481 m (1578 ft)
Population	15,336 (31/12/2004)
- Density	545 /km² (1,411 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	M
Postal code	85748
Area code	089
Website	garching.de Coordinates: 48°15′0″N 11°39′0″E / 48.25, 11.65

Garching bei München or Garching is a town in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments.

1 Location
2 Districts
3 Educational and research institutes
4 Sister cities
5 External links

Location

The town is at 48°15′N, 11°39′E, near the River Isar and the A9 autobahn. A Munich U-Bahn metro line terminates at the university and research facilities near the town. It is only two U-Bahn stops from Fröttmanning which has the newly built Allianz Arena.

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.

Districts

The town has four districts:

Garching
Dirnismaning
Hochbrück
Forschungsinstitute (Research Institutes) - to be renamed Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum (University and Research Centre)

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:
- 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)
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)