... near Berlin:

The German capital city Berlin is a prime growth promoter. There have been especially high growth rates in Berlin's surrounding area. You can be part of this development! Eberswalde is only 37 km away from the centre of Berlin. 

... good traffic connections:

Eberswalde can easily be reached by / via

• Federal roads B 2 and B 167
• Oder-Havel-Canal
• Motorway A 11 / E 28
• Railroad line from Berlin to Stettin
• Eberswalde to Frankfurt upon Oder
• Eberswalde-Finow Airport
• Finow Canal

... attractive sites:

• Technologie und Gewerbepark Eberswalde (TGE)
• Industriegebiet am Binnenhafen Eberswalde (at the inland port)
• Gewerbegebiet an der Heegermühler Straße (in Heegermühler Straße)
• Gewerbegebiet Finow Industriepark (FIP) (in Finow)
• Industrie- und InnovationsCentrum Eberswalde (IIC)
• Industriepark an der Angermünder Straße (in Angermünder Straße)
• Gewerbegebiet Nordpark
• Gewerbefläche am ehemaligen Heizwerk Coppistraße  (in Coppistraße)
• Wirtschafts-Verkehrs-Zentrum am Flugplatz (WVZ) (at the airport)
  

... ambitious regional development centre

The State of Brandenburg has classified the town of Eberswalde as a regional development centre and allocated funds accordingly.

On the one hand, this status places Eberswalde at a pole position for further growth. On the other hand, it also demands decisive continual involvement in the economic development of the entire region.

Eberswalde is a competent partner in eight areas of specialization. They are:

• automotive
• nutrition
• wood processing
• plastic materials
• logistics
• metal production, metal handling and metal processing
• paper
• rail road technology

The State of Brandenburg has classified Eberswalde as a regional development centre ("REZ") and sees the town as a central player in the economic development of the entire region. Thus, Eberswalde is ideal for the realization of large projects such as ...

• Finow Airport which is supposed to gain regional importance.
• the further development of the region along the Finow Canal. Huge investment opportunities in connection with leisure and free time activities, for instance jetties.
• the reconstruction of road B 167 will further improve the accessibility of all industrial sites and reduce driving times to Berlin by half an hour.
• the "Paul-Wunderlich-Haus" as a service and administration building in the town centre  offers attractive retail space and possibilities to invest in service facilities.
• a number of important agencies are already located in the "Behördenzentrum" in  "Tramper Chaussee", for example Brandenburgisches Straßenbauamt (state road authority), Finanzamt (revenue office), Landeskriminalamt (state bureau of criminal investigation) and others.

Together, these as well as other sites, good infrastructure and excellent traffic connections form the basis for diverse synergy effects, e.g. for metal processing companies, for businesses of the medical-therapeutic sector, for companies specializing in environmental technology or in logistics.

The University of Applied Sciences of Eberswalde as well as Berlin universities serve and support enterprises with questions concerning innovation, networking and site marketing.

The town of Eberswalde lies on the Berlin - Stettin economic axis and maintains good contacts to the Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland.

Invest in Eberswalde and make it your gateway to the new EU-member states in Eastern Europe!

For further questions please contact Dr. Ronald Thiel, head of the town's department for economic development and tourism:

Stadt Eberswalde
Amt für Wirtschaftsförderung und Tourismus
Amtsleiter: Dr. Ronald Thiel
Rathaus, Zimmer 201
Breite Straße 41 - 44
D - 16225 Eberswalde

Phone: + 3334/64-101
Fax: + 3334/64-678

E-mail: r.thiel@eberswalde.de
Office hours: daily or upon appointment