Arguments for the business location of Pforzheim
Wilferdinger Höhe commercial area
The city of Pforzheim is the regional centre of the northern Black Forest and is located where the Black Forest, Kraichgau and Stromberg meet.
The specific profile of the location of Pforzheim and the proximity to the technological region of Karlsruhe and the European metropolis of Stuttgart offer many favourable conditions for the development of the successful, growth-oriented and future-oriented business location of Pforzheim.
In particular, a wide range of excellent arguments in favour of the location of the city of Pforzheim are attractive to existing companies and potential new companies to the city:
Good infrastructure
- There are four motorway junctions to the A8 at "Pforzheim Ost", "Pforzheim Nord", "Pforzheim West" and "Pforzheim Süd"
- Three important Bundesstraßen (national main roads) cross the city (the B 10, B 294 and B 463)
- The German railway system has connections to local and long-distance services with three railway stations
- Pforzheim is located on the international railway route Paris-Straßburg-Salzburg
- Hourly connections to the intercity ICE hubs in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe Pforzheim is only 40 minutes by car on the A8 motorway from Stuttgart airport
- The inland port of Karlsruhe is only 30 minutes by car on the A8 motorway
Competitively-priced fully-developed industrial real estate
- Fully-developed industrial and commercial areas very near to the A8 motorway (connection via the four Pforzheim motorway junctions)
- Industrial real estate low-priced in comparison to the greater areas of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe
- Development of further industrial real estate (industrial estate Buchbusch with approx. 55 ha) is on-going
Diversified and future-oriented specialist companies
- High density of high tech companies
- Innovative and future-oriented medium-sized companies
- Economic centre for the region of the northern Black Forest
- High quality production location
- Core expertise in the fields of precious metal processing / metallurgy, precision engineering, knowledge and IT oriented services, printing technology, national mail order companies
- Unique cluster structures in the fields of stamping, forming, metalworking, and dental and medical engineering
- Continuous expansion of the future-oriented fields of the IT sector and design
- Successful changeover to high-tech economy
Location for important institutions and organisations
- Chamber of commerce and industry for the northern Black Forest
- Regional association for the northern Black Forest
- National association for jewellery and watches
- Black Forest Tourismus GmbH (office in Pforzheim)
- District office for the Enzkreis rural area
- Pforzheim association of neighbouring cities and municipalities
- Branch office for the Karlsruhe chamber of trade
- District Craftsman's Association for Pforzheim and the Enzkreis
- District Court and Pforzheim Industrial Tribunal
- Business development corporation "Nordschwarzwald GmbH"
Excellent range of educational institutions
- University of Pforzheim – design, engineering, economics and law with over 4,600 students and several Steinbeis centres for technology transfer
- City library
- Educational establishments
Varied range of cultural attractions
- Pforzheim theatre
- Osterfeld cultural centre
- Raphael Mürle puppet theatre
- Mottenkäfig puppet stage
- City orchestra
- South-west chamber orchestra of Pforzheim
- Oratorian choir
- Domicil jazz club
- Jazz society – Bottich / Ratskeller
- Jazzkeller jazz club
- Prisma folk club
- Pforzheim jewellery museum in the Reuchlinhaus building
- Pforzheim Schmuckwelten jewellery arcade in the Industriehaus building
- Pforzheim art-and-crafts club
- Pforzheim gallery
- Brötzinger Art Gallery club
- Gallery in the foyer of the Osterfeld cultural centre
- Schütt collection of gems
- Pforzheim city museum
- Haus der Landsmannschaften (German homeland) museum
- Kappelhof archaeological site
- Rural museum
- "Lest we forget" – historical collection from the former East Germany
- Mineral stones museum
- Technical museum for the Pforzheim jewellery and watchmaking industry
Excellent quality of life and living location
- Attractive recreational areas right on the doorstep (nature park Schwarzwald Mitte / Nord, nature park Stromberg-Heuchelberg)
- Extensive range of sport and leisure facilities
- Attractive, manageable, reasonably-priced area with the flair and comfort of a larger city
- Wide range of quality cultural offers
- Near to greater areas of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe
