Garching
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Garching bei München ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}, Garching near Munich) or Garching is a city in Bavaria, near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments, located at Campus Garching.
HistoryEdit
Spatial urban planningEdit
Garching was small Bavarian village, until the Free State of Bavaria decided to implement a technology and urban planning policy whereby science should be clustered north of Munich. This urban planning policy was in line with the principles advanced by the International Congress of Modernist Architects (CIAM) in the 1933 Athens 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 for Max Planck Society employees was constructed. In 1960 the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics was established in Garching.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In 1963 Technical University of Munich (TUM) published plans, whereby some TUM institutes would be moved to Garching.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the Institute for Radiochemistry were both established in Garching in 1964. In 1966 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities established the Walther Meißner Institute for Low Temperature Research in Garching. In 1967 the TUM and the Ludwig 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 in Garching-Hochbruck.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> However, Garching only promoted itself as science city, by incorporating the local nuclear reactor, affectionately known as "atomic egg", in the official coat of arms in 1967.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
After World War II the scientific publishing business started off slowly and had to be relaunched.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> A photojournalist lamented, that "photographers would rather go visit the kampas, the dangerous natives on the banks of the Ucayali River, than Professor Heisenberg in the Max Planck Institute."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
DistrictsEdit
The town has four districts:
- Garching city
- Garching Hochbrück
- Campus Garching (University and Research Campus)
- Dirnismaning
High-tech hubEdit
Garching is part of the Nordallianz, a group of 8 towns and cities situated north of Munich.
TransportEdit
The town is at Template:Coord, near the river Isar and the Bundesautobahn 9.
The Munich U-Bahn line U6 connects the city with the stations Garching-Hochbrück, Garching and Garching-Forschungszentrum (Garching Science Campus).
University and research institutesEdit
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Several research and scientific educational institutions are based in Garching, including:
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Technical University of Munich (TUM)
- Institutes of the Max Planck Society (MPG)
- European Southern Observatory (ESO)
- Federal Research Institute for Food Chemistry (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittelchemie DFA)
- Bavarian Center of Applied Energy Research (ZAE)
- General Electric Global Research Center
- BMW M high-performance vehicle research and development
Twin townsEdit
Garching bei München is twinned with:
SportEdit
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.
ReferencesEdit
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