The Northern Black Forest

Pforzheim, known also as the City of Gold, with its approx. 120,000 inhabitants is the center of the region of the Northern Black Forest and has a particular reputation for its jewelry and watch-making industry with several hundred years of tradition. Processing of precious metals, mechanical engineering, high-precision, stamping and medical engineering, wholesale mail order houses, creative business and service are other fields of competence of this business location. The cultural life in Pforzheim also offers quite remarkable attractions. In addition to theaters, cinemas and museums. There is a high number of events, sports clubs and associations.

The town of Calw is the place of business for a high number of small and medium-sized enterprises from many different fields of industry. A magnificent pedestrian area with old, protected half-timbered houses invites you to have a stroll. The surrounding landscape with the nature and the mountains of the Black Forest offers quite remarkable attractions.

Freudenstadt is a preferred location for companies of mechanical engineering, dental and electric engineering, metal processing and tourism. In Freudenstadt, you will find the largest marketplace in Germany. The magnificent landscape of the Black Forest attracts thousands of tourists every year, and many people move to this town since they have found in it an attractive place in which they wish to work and live.

The Enzkreis District consists of 28 towns and communities and also comprises the city of Pforzheim. A strong economy and a landscape with high variety and beauty offer many opportunity for working and living. Medium-sized enterprises in the field of mechanical and automotive engineering, metal processing, medical engineering, electric engineering, electronics, high-precision mechanics as well as jewelry manufacturing and processing have their place of business in the Enzkreis.

In the south of the Enzkreis, there is the Calw District. High economic innovation reflects in enterprises of the fields of automotive engineering, mechanical engineering, timber industry, plastics engineering, electronics, cosmetics and textile industry. Crafts are another field of high importance in this area. Hotel and catering business of top quality also makes its contribution to the economic success of this district. The magnificent surrounding landscape of the Black Forest also has its share in granting a high quality of life.

Also in the Freudenstadt Dsitrict, the wonderful nature attracts many people seeking recreation, which makes this region one of the largest centers of tourism in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg with a wide range of offers. Further important fields of business are automotive and mechanical engineering, wood processing as well as the plastic-processing industry.