Industrial area north

The industrial area in the north of the city is approximately 300 hectares in size. It is conveniently located between the two highway connections Freiburg-Mitte and Freiburg-Nord (A5) and has a direct connection to public transportation as well as an airfield.

The North Industrial Estate is home to industrial, commercial and service companies. The area is characterized by scientific and research institutions; in addition to the technical faculty of the University of Freiburg, five Fraunhofer Institutes and the BioTechPark, the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology is also based here. The Freiburg Trade Fair Center is also located here.

Green Industry Park" initiative in the North Industrial Estate

The northern industrial area consumes 20% of Freiburg's electricity and produces 10% of the city's CO2 emissions. Against this backdrop, the city of Freiburg, the energy supply company badenova, Fraunhofer ISE and FWTM have developed a new approach as part of the "Green City Freiburg" concept: The "Green Industry Park Freiburg" initiative, launched in February 2014, aims to work with local companies to develop Freiburg's largest and oldest industrial area into a forward-looking, sustainable, energy- and resource-efficient industrial area with a nationwide model character. This involves the networking of committed companies and individual solutions, the joint development of new, innovative projects and model projects as well as the identification and utilisation of potential savings and opportunities for cooperation.

Further information on the Green Industry Park can be found here.

Profile:

Approx. 300 ha of commercial space
Approx. 559 companies with approx. 14,600 employees*
Convenient transport links to the A5 and public transport
Strongly represented: innovative research and development as well as production companies
Largest companies/institutions: Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Pfizer Deutschland GmbH, Micronas GmbH, Rhodia GmbH
Location of Messe Freiburg
Has an airfield
Broadband coverage

*Data from the Office for Citizen Services and Information Processing of the City of Freiburg. Due to the information provided in the business registration, employees of branches are only counted at the head office, which can lead to distortions (as of December 2020)

Karte Gewerbegebiete Industriegebiet Nord

Industrial location

The largest and oldest industrial area in Freiburg covers an area of around 300 hectares. International manufacturing companies - including Rhodia GmbH (specialty chemicals), Micronas GmbH (microchip technology) and Pfizer Deutschland GmbH (pharmaceuticals) - have settled here.

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Research location

The largest energy supplier in southern Baden, badenova AG & Co KG, is based in the North Industrial Estate, as are the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, the Solar Info Center, the BioTechPark, five Fraunhofer Institutes (IAF, EMI, IPM, ISE, IWM), the Institute for Micro- and Information Technology of the Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft (HSG-IMIT) and the University's Faculty of Engineering.

Many innovative companies characterize Freiburg's image as a location for life sciences, environmental economics and innovative research and development.

Commercial location

Numerous car dealerships and the TÜV Süd branch characterize the western part, which is also known as "Automeile Nord". Adjacent to this is the so-called "furniture mile" with furniture stores such as XXXLutz, IKEA, Möbel Braun and Roller as well as the Freiburg Trade Fair.

In the InnovationsZentrum Nord, the BioTechPark Freiburg and the Cerdia industrial park, there are opportunities for innovative companies to rent office space and laboratories of various sizes at reasonable prices.

The area has a comprehensive network of modern fiber optic cables, which guarantee a very good broadband supply. The standard transmission rate is up to 1 GBit/s. If required, it is possible to optimize this transmission rate.

BioTechPark Freiburg also offers a fully equipped start-up laboratory that can be rented on a project-related or temporary basis. However, established companies from the fields of biotechnology, microsystems technology, medical technology, pharmaceuticals and related areas also value the BioTechPark as an ideal business location. The companies located in the BioTechPark are integrated into BioRegio Freiburg and the trinational BioValley network. Further information can be found at www.biotechpark.de.

Transport links

Thanks to the four-lane expansion of Mooswaldallee, the North Industrial Estate is optimally connected to the A5 (Karlsruhe-Basel) and all other Freiburg industrial estates. The industrial estate is also connected to the B 31 (east-west) and the B 3 (north-south).

Thanks to streetcar line 4, various bus lines and the Breisgau S-Bahn with the Neue Messe/Universität stop, the industrial estate has a direct connection to local public transport.

With the City-Flugplatz-Freiburg air field, the North Industrial Estate also offers fast transport links to the centers of Europe in addition to rail and road. It is approved for commercial and private flights up to 10 tons take-off weight. Further information can be found at www.city-flugplatz-freiburg.de.