Campus Garching

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Campus Garching
Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum Garching
Garching-Forschungszentrum
Website
forschung-garching.tum.de

The Campus Garching (German: Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum Garching) is a campus of the Technical University of Munich and a number of other research institutes, located around 10 km north of Munich in Garching. At the same time, it constitutes a district of the city. With more than 7,500 employees and around 17,000 students, it is one of the largest centers for science, research and teaching in Germany.[1][2]

Facilities

The Campus Garching is the largest campus of the Technical University of Munich.[1] It is joined by numerous research facilities, including four Max Planck Institutes.

Technical University of Munich

TUM Department of Mechanical Engineering
to the right (2012)
Informatics

Five departments of the Technical University of Munich are located in Garching:[1]

  • TUM Department of Chemistry
  • TUM Department of Informatics
  • TUM Department of Mathematics
  • TUM Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • TUM Department of Physics

A new €540 million, 45,000 m2 building for the

TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is currently in construction and the department is scheduled to move by 2025.[3]

Research centers include:

Additionally, TUM operates a meteorological measurement tower, the Oskar von Miller Tower, and the TUM Fire Department on the campus.

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich has numerous facilities on the Campus Garching, including seven chairs of the Faculty of Physics and sections of the Faculty of Geology.

Max Planck Society

Four research institutes of the Max Planck Society operate on the Campus Garching:

A new building for the Max Planck Institute for Physics is currently in construction and the institute is expected to move in 2022.[4]

Other research institutes

Headquarters of the European Southern Observatory
Mathematics
building (right)

The headquarters of the European Southern Observatory and its Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre are located on the campus.

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities operates the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, one of the fastest supercomputers in Europe, and the Walther-Meißner-Institute for Low Temperature Research [de] on the campus.

Five research clusters are located on the campus:

Other research institutes include:

Companies

Companies that have established offices on the campus include:[1]

Infrastructure

The TUM Institute for Advanced Study (left) and the new multipurpose building GALILEO (right)

In recent years, the Garching campus has started developing into a campus university. In 2019, a new €45 million canteen opened, capable of serving 7,300 meals a day.[6] The first student residences are currently in construction.[7]

A 36,000 m2 multipurpose building named GALILEO is in the final stages of construction. When completed, it will house offices, stores, restaurants, a church, a hotel and convention center, and guest apartments.[8] GALILEO is being developed as a public–private partnership between the state of Bavaria and private investors.

A

WARR at the SpaceX Hyperloop pod competitions, where they won all races.[9]

Geography

Town sign to the campus

The Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum Garching is a district of the city of Garching, rather than a single legal entity. It is located on the left bank of the Isar, about 2 to 3 kilometers northeast of Garching's city center, about 17 kilometers north-northeast of the city center of Munich, and about 16 kilometers southwest of Munich Airport. Located in the Munich gravel plain, the campus' elevation is flat throughout.

Two streams also run from south to north, fed by the Schwabinger Bach and the Nymphenburg-Biedersteiner Kanal [de]. Both streams join northeast of the campus and flow into the Isar soon after.

Transport

Garching-Forschungszentrum

The campus is located near the Garching-Nord exit of the Bundesautobahn 9. By bicycle, it can be reached from Munich via the Isarradweg (Isar Cycle Path) without road crossings; a connection to the Münchner Radschnellweg [de] is planned. The streets on campus are named after important scientists: Hans Kopfermann, Karl Schwarzschild, Ludwig Prandtl, Ludwig Boltzmann, Walther Meissner, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, James Franck, and Ernst Otto Fischer.

For a long time, accessibility to the campus by

Garching-Hochbrück. Those who missed the last bus in the early evening had to rely on hitchhiking to get home, which earned the campus the nicknames Garchosibirsk and Novogarchinsk.[10]

Since 2006, the campus has been connected to the

Garching-Forschungszentrum station, with an interval of 5 minutes during rush hour.[11]
It takes around half an hour to get to the city center.

History

Garching
, even being featured in its coat of arms.

In 1957, the first German

Forschungsreaktor München II
has been in operation since 2004.

The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics was established on the campus in 1960. In 1980, the European Southern Observatory relocated from Geneva to its new building on the Garching campus.

Since the 1960s, a relocation of major parts of the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is currently in construction and the department is scheduled to move by 2025.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Forschen und Lernen auf dem Campus Garching". Technical University of Munich (in German). Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Das Garchinger Hochschul- und Forschungszentrum:". City of Garching (in German). Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Major milestone in new construction on Garching hightech campus". Technical University Munich. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  4. ^ "New home for the MPI for Physics". Max Planck Institute for Physics. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  5. ^ a b Lohr, Bernhard (11 July 2022). "Garching - Wo die Zukunft bald einzieht". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  6. ^ Passarge, Gudrun (12 September 2019). "TU Garching: Ein neue Mensa mit Exzellenzstatus". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Sustainable residences on the Garching campus". Technical University of Munich. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  8. ^ Passarge, Gudrun (7 September 2019). "Garching: Neuer TU Campus "Galileo" eröffnet". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  9. ^ Freymark, Linus (21 June 2019). "Hyperloop: Münchner Studenten zeigen vierten Prototyp". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  10. ^ Schwarzenbeck, H. (5 November 2009). "Studieren in Garchosibirsk". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  11. ^ "Nach Garching bald alle fünf Minuten". Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (in German). 11 September 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  12. ^ Technische Universität München – Zukunftscampus Garching (PDF). Technical University of Munich. 2007.

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