Garching bei München

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This article is about the city Garching bei München, another place containing Garching is Garching an der Alz in Altötting district.

Coordinates: 48°15′N 11°39′E

Garching


Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Administrative region	Upper Bavaria
District	Munich
Population	15,336 (2005)
Area	28.16 km²
Population density	548 /km²
Elevation	481 m
Coordinates	48°15′ N 11°39′ E
Postal code	85748
Area code	089
Licence plate code	M
Mayor	Manfred Solbrig
Website	garching.de

Garching bei München or Garching is a town in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is located at 48°15′N 11°39′E, situated near the river Isar and the A9 motorway. A Munich U-Bahn metro line terminates at the university and research facilities near the town.

1 Districts
2 Educational and Research Institutes
3 Sister cities
4 External links

[edit] Districts

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

[edit] Educational and Research Institutes

A number of research and scientific educational institutions are located in Garching, including:

Several departments of the Technische Universität München (TUM), including:
- 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
Other scientific institutes:
- Headquarters of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
- Federal Research Institute for Food Chemistry (DFA)
- Walter Meißner Institute (WMI) of the of the BAdW (low-temperature physics)
- Bavarian Center of Applied Energy Research (ZAE)
- Reactor safety research [5]
- General Electric Global Research Center
Leibniz-Rechnenzentrum [6] of the of the BAdW (central computing facilities for the Munich universities and other research institutes)