Hadern is the 20th borough of the

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total l ...

n city of

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...

Location

Located in the south-west of Munich, Hadern's borders are the Autobahn Munich-Garmish in the south, ''Fürstenriederstrasse'' in the east and ''Senftenauerstrasse'' in the north and also the south. A large part of the borough is occupied by the Waldfriedhof, the largest cemetery in the city.

History and description

Hadern was originally a farmer village and was first mentioned in the 11th century by the name of Haderun.

Großhadern Großhadern (in the town district Hadern) is a district in the south-west of the Bavarian state capital Munich. Großhadern is primarily a bourgeois residential area. Exceptions are the so-called "village core" with numerous small shops as well as ...

belonged to the

Benediktbeuern Abbey Benediktbeuern Abbey (Kloster Benediktbeuern) is an institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco, originally a monastery of the Benedictine Order, in Benediktbeuern in Bavaria, near the Kochelsee, 64 km south-south-west of Munich. It is the oldes ...

, Kleinhadern to the

Schäftlarn Abbey Schäftlarn Abbey (Kloster Schäftlarn) is a Benedictine monastery on the Isar in Schäftlarn, south of Munich in Bavaria, Germany. History The monastery was founded in 762 by Waltrich, a priest of noble family, on his own land. The monaster ...

. Großhadern was incorporated into Munich in 1938, thus making it the youngest district. The structures of the former rural settlement in Großhadern can still clearly be made out in the old village centre. Structurally, Hadern consists mainly of family homes. On areas previously used for agricultural purposes in the district, large living complexes like the ''Blumenau'' or the complexes on ''Senftenauerstrasse'' and in Neuhadern with a high proportion of council tenants were built after the Second World War until into the 80s. New residential buildings are currently being built south of the

Klinikum Großhadern The LMU Klinikum (until 2020 ''Klinikum der Universität München'') is the merged hospital complex of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), including the ''Campus Innenstadt'' in the city center and the '' Campus Großhadern'' in Hade ...

. Since the extension of

U-Bahn Rapid transit in Germany consists of four U-Bahn systems and fourteen S-Bahn systems. The U-Bahn commonly understood to stand for Untergrundbahn (''underground railway'') are conventional rapid transit systems that run mostly underground, while ...

Line 6 to the clinic, the district is well connected in terms of public transport. The Klinikum Großhadern (Großhadern Medical Centre) of the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

is the largest hospital complex in Munich. In 1994 the Genzentrum (Gene Centre) of the LMU was put into operation and in 1999 the entire chemical/pharmaceutical faculty was relocated to Hadern. Further constructional development followed in 2004 with the inclusion of the lecture and research department in ''Department Biologie II'' of the ''Biozentrums der HighTech CampusLMU'' (Biology Centre of the HighTech CampusLMU). Over the mid and long term the entire biological faculty and further science faculties and institutes are to be consolidated together here. The ''Kinderzentrum des Bezirks Oberbayern'' (Children's centre of

Oberbayern Upper Bavaria (german: Oberbayern, ; ) is one of the seven Regierungsbezirk, administrative districts of Bavaria, Germany. Geography Upper Bavaria is located in the southern portion of Bavaria, and is centered on the city of Munich, both state ...

) and the associated Montessorischule as well as the Augustinum elderly homeAugustinum Neufriedenheim (German)
/ref> in the area and its associated Stiftsklinik are further social facilities located in the district, that along with the clinical centre, constitute the majority of available jobs in the area. The social order of the population consists of young people, workers as well as elderly people, above all in residential buildings and homes for one family. The proportion of foreigners in Hadern is under the city average.

Statistics

(As of 31 December, inhabitants with principal residence.) (''Statistical Pocket Book of Munich'')

References

External links

{{coord, 48, 06, 38, N, 11, 27, 55, E, display=title, region:DE_type:landmark_source:dewiki Boroughs of Munich