University and Research Center Garching

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The University and Research Center Garching is a campus of the Technical University of Munich and the location of numerous other research institutions. 12,000 students study on the premises, and 6,000 people are employed in the TUM and local research facilities.

geography

Entrance board to the University and Research Center Garching

location

The university and research center is part of the city of Garching near Munich . It is to the left of the Isar , about 2 to 3 kilometers northeast of the city center of Garching, about 17 kilometers north-northeast of the city center of Munich , and about 16 kilometers southwest of Munich Airport .

The area borders to the north, east and partly also to the south on the Isartal nature reserve; in the north, the Wiesäckerbach forms the border with Dietersheim's arable land and thus with the Freising district ; in the east the area merges into the alluvial forest. Development opportunities (within the municipal boundaries of Garching) therefore only exist in the west as far as the Freisinger Landstrasse or, if necessary, as far as the motorway.

traffic

Exterior view of the Garching-Forschungszentrum underground station

The site is close to the Garching-Nord exit of federal motorway 9 . It can be reached by bike from Munich via the Isar cycle path without crossing roads; a connection to the first Munich cycle expressway is planned.

Accessibility by public transport was problematic for a long time. TUM operated its own shuttle bus between its main site and the Garching campus. Public buses ran from the Studentenstadt underground station, later from Garching-Hochbrück. Those who missed the last bus in the early evening had to hitchhike home. This earned the location the nicknames Garchosibirsk and Novogarchinsk .

Since 2006 the area with the terminus Garching-Forschungszentrum has been connected to the network of the Munich subway . The U-Bahn line 6 runs every 10 minutes during the day and takes 30 minutes to get to Marienplatz in the center of Munich.

structure

The main axis of the campus is the south-north running Boltzmannstrasse with the green strip running parallel to it on the cover of the underground station. The oldest research institutes (research reactor, plasma physics) are to the east of this axis, the younger faculty buildings (mathematics / computer science, mechanical engineering) to the west. In the north are the physics department, other physical institutes, the cafeteria, the institute for advanced study, chemistry and the start-up center; in the south the data center and several Max Planck Institutes.

Two streams run south-north, which are fed by the Schwabinger Bach and the Nymphenburg-Biederstein Canal : in the west, behind the large faculty buildings, a narrow park was created along the partially dammed Wiesäckerbach; to the east, the Garching Mühlbach crosses the plasma physics site and then turns into the alluvial forest. Both streams join northeast of the campus and soon flow into the Isar.

Street names

The streets on campus are named after important natural scientists: Hans Kopfermann , Karl Schwarzschild , Ludwig Prandtl , Ludwig Boltzmann , Walther Meißner , Georg Lichtenberg , James Franck , Ernst Otto Fischer . Located on the Munich gravel plain, the campus is flat throughout - also on the Coulombwall , where no wall can be seen far and wide. Rather, the accelerator laboratory is located on this road, in which Coulomb potential barriers are overcome.

History and Institutes

The Munich Research Reactor (FRM) with its characteristic dome
TU Munich, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, in the background the research reactors FRM I (so-called Atom-Ei , 1957) and the construction site of FRM II (2004)
Research Center Garching: View of the Center of Excellence and the Mechanical Engineering Faculty
TUM building complex with various faculties, institutes and libraries
A building with additional lecture halls ("interim lecture halls")

The nucleus of this area was the first German research reactor, the FRM , in 1957 . It was in operation from 1957 to 2000. As an atomic egg, its dome became a symbol of an age and a symbol of Garching. The building is a listed building and will be preserved after all nuclear installations have been removed. Immediately behind it on the fenced-in reactor site, its successor FRM II, the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz research neutron source , has been in operation since 2004.

In 1960 the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics moved to the campus. A tandem accelerator followed in 1970, operated jointly by both Munich universities.

Since the 1960s, consideration has been given to relocating the Technical University in whole or in part to Garching. The implementation of this project dragged and dragged on for half a century. Until the final decision to build the subway, the relocation of other faculties was repeatedly called into question due to the poor transport connections. Around 1970 most of the physical institutes moved to Garching (Physics Department 1 building ); the lectures for the basic course took place in Munich until the 1990s. The Faculty of Chemistry followed in 1978 with a monolithic, brutalist building typical of the time . The Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) built an institute building for its physics section .

After the binding decision to build the subway, a large building was erected for the TU Faculty of Mechanical Engineering with the support of BMW ( Eberhard von Kuenheim-Bau ). The Faculties of Mathematics and Computer Science followed with a common building.

In addition to the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics mentioned above, there are three other Max Planck Institutes on campus: for astrophysics , for extraterrestrial physics and for quantum optics . Garching is still a "Corporate Supporting Member" of the Max Planck Society .

On June 28, 2004 General Electric opened its European research center in Garching. 120 researchers are currently employed there. The main activities are renewable energies, energy technology, turbo machines, composite materials, instruments and control systems, as well as medical technology.

In May 2006 the move of the Leibniz data center from downtown Munich to Garching was completed. One of the world's most powerful data centers, including the network infrastructure for the university location in Munich, is installed in a technologically unique, innovative technical building with high-performance air conditioning.

In May 2016, the new building was Catalysis (Catalysis Research Center - CRC) opened the Faculty of Chemistry. The costs of the new building rose from the original € 44.5 million to € 67.4 million.

On September 11, 2019, a new cafeteria, located behind the previous one, replaced it.

The following TUM faculties are located on campus:

There are also:

Formerly were on campus as well

On the edge of the research area there is a storage library of the Bavarian State Library , the control room of the TUM fire brigade and a weather tower ( Oskar von Miller tower ).

Infrastructure and social life

The Garching site is developing into a campus university; Although the Garching University and Research Center is currently only used for studying and working, dormitories on the research site are planned. The open-air festival GARNIX has been held on the site since 2001 ; Since 2006 there has been a student-run Campus Cneipe C2 in the side rooms of the cafeteria .

The University and Research Center Garching is not a legal entity. The individual institutions have settled as landowners on the basis of individual agreements with the Free State of Bavaria. Because of this history, there is no body that coordinates campus-wide scientific and social exchange. A website on the Garching research campus set up by TUM provides information on the facilities located there.

GALILEO

In the middle of the campus, right next to the underground station, the GALILEO building complex is currently being built , initially planned under the name Neue Mitte , which will contain a hotel with apartments and conference rooms as well as restaurants and shops. The opening took place on September 17, 2019, a fitness center and various offices have already been opened.

GALILEO is the first project in the Bavarian higher education system to be set up in a public-private partnership . Initially, the private partner was Thomas Zug's "Zug Group", to whom the Free State gave the area under heritable building rights .

Hyperloop

A Hyperloop test track is currently being built on the campus of the University and Research Center Garching .

literature

  • Martin Pabst: Technical University of Munich - Future Campus Garching (2007) pdf

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.tum.de/die-tum/die-universitaet/standorte/
  2. ↑ Number of students and employees as of 2017 according to official information from the city of Garching verified , accessed February 12, 2020
  3. ↑ Map 7 on page 13 of the ordinance of the district of Upper Bavaria on the protection of parts of the landscape along the Isar in the districts of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Munich, Freising and Erding as a landscape protection area of ​​February 18, 1986.
  4. ↑ Study in Garchosibirsk. In: sueddeutsche.de . November 5, 2009, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  5. ^ Institute for Advanced Study (IAS): Start. Retrieved November 8, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Physics Department, TUM - History. In: ph.tum.de. Retrieved October 13, 2018 .
  7. ^ Faculty of Chemistry: History of the Faculty of Chemistry. In: ch.tum.de. Retrieved October 13, 2018 .
  8. ↑ see list of MPG corporative sponsoring members ( Memento of January 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 445 kB)
  9. ↑ The TUM Catalysis Research Center (accessed August 13, 2019)
  10. ↑ Bavarian Supreme Court of Auditors: Annual report 2019 part no. 53
  11. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : TU Munich: A cafeteria with excellence status, September 12, 2019 , accessed on September 12, 2019
  12. ^ History - Max Planck Computing & Data Facility. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Sustainable residential buildings on the Garching campus. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
  14. ↑ http://www.forschung-garching.tum.de/index.php?id=5
  15. ↑ GALILEO
  16. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/hyperloop-vierter-prototyp-tu-muenchen-1.4492423