Garching bei München

The town is at 48°15′N 11°39′E, near the river Isar and the Bundesautobahn 9.

Garching has a number of scientific research institutes and scientific experiment facilities located in the city, including a linear accelerator and a research nuclear reactor. The nuclear research reactor, 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, Rudolf Diesel, Albert Einstein, Leonhard Euler, Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck, Wilhelm Röntgen, and Erwin Schrödinger.

The town has four districts:

• Garching
• Dirnismaning
• Hochbrück
• Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum (University and Research Centre) - formerly known as Forschungsinstitute (Research Institutes)

The Munich U-Bahn line U6 connects the city with the stations Garching-Hochbrück, Garching and Garching-Forschungszentrum.

Garching Research Center (Garching-Forschungszentrum)

Several research and scientific educational institutions are based in Garching, including:

• Departments of the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
  • physics
  • FRM-II research reactor
  • semiconductor physics and engineering (Walter Schottky Institute)
  • chemistry
  • mechanical engineering
  • mathematics
  • computer science
• 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)
  • Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF)
• Part of the physics department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
• Headquarters of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
  • ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre at ESO 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 research
• General Electric Global Research Center
• Leibniz-Rechenzentrum of the BAdW (central computing facilities for the Munich universities and other research institutes)
• BMW M GmbH - high-performance/motorsport vehicle research and development

Garching is part of the Nordallianz, a group of 8 towns situated between the city of Munich and Munich Airport.

Garching bei München is twinned with:

• Lørenskog (Norway)
• Radeberg (Germany)

The town's football club VfR Garching, formed in 1921, experienced its greatest success in 2014 when it won promotion to the Regionalliga Bayern for the first time.

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