Clean environment, vibrant culture life, multifaceted leisure-time activities: Brandenburg offers excellent conditions not only for working, but also for enjoying life in family.
Clean Environment
In Brandenburg, forests cover 1.1 million hectares, i.e. 37% of the surface area, which makes the region of the most wooded in Germany. Moreover, Brandenburg features 3,000 lakes and 30,000 kilometers of rivers and canals - Europe’s largest network of waterways. Living in green surroundings, by the water or in an historic building - Every dream can become true in Brandenburg!
More information on nature in Brandenburg is available here.
Brandenburg offers a wide range of leisure-time activities to sportsmen, families and all active persons:
Please visit http://www.reiseland-brandenburg.de/ for detailed information on sports and leisure-time activities in Brandenburg..
Vibrant Culture Life
Brandenburg also offers an excellent environment to art lovers and culture aficionados. Apart from Potsdam’s buildings listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List, including Sans Souci Palace, the region offers an exceptional cultural landscape composed of more than five hundred palaces, parks and old churches.
Last but not least, the German Capital Region features three opera houses, 130 theaters and 220 museums, as well as several world-famous symphony orchestras, a large number of renowned choirs, and a multifaceted club and music scene.
Located in the middle of the German Capital Region, Berlin offers worldwide renowned cultural landmarks. Strolling along Unter den Linden Boulevard, you can appreciate major historic buildings such as the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Cathedral and the Gendarmenmarkt Square with the German and French cathedrals. Modern architecture is equally fascinating in Berlin.
Well-developed road and rail networks rapidly connect Berlin and the surrounding Brandenburg region to the rest of the world. Moreover, Germany’s largest public transport network ensures perfect mobility for about six million people.
A Family-friendly Region
As evidenced in the 2007 Family Atlas published by the Federal Ministry for Family in co-operation with the Prognos institute, Brandenburg’s family friendliness is another asset of the region. The study refers Potsdam as the number one town in Germany with respect to family friendliness, and Brandenburg as one of the “top regions for families”.
The Brandenburg districts also excel at family friendliness: eleven out of fourteen districts and all four towns in the region take the top three places in the overall evaluation of 439 German districts and towns. Reasons for the good ranking are the family friendliness, the possibility to combine family life and working, the good educational environment, and the multifaceted leisure-time facilities for children and young adults.
Berlin-Brandenburg is an international region. Families from all over the world can take advantage of a very good educational environment with eight international schools (including a Japanese school) and internationally geared courses of study.
Affordable Rents and Low Building Costs
The high quality of life in Brandenburg has a reasonable price. In the 2007 rent level index of the Hamburg-based research enterprise F+B, the towns of Eberswalde and Brandenburg on the Havel achieve the best results among 327 German towns with more then 20,000 inhabitants - with about a third of the rent that has to be paid in cost-leader Munich. The rent prices in Cottbus and Frankfurt/Oder are distinctly lower than the national average, and even Potsdam - the “secret German capital”, as stated in Der Spiegel in the 2007/40 issue - remains below the national average.
Comparison of the rent index in selected locations (≥20,000 inhabitants, index Germany = 100)
Moreover, the building costs per square meter for a detached house in Brandenburg belong to the lowest in Germany.
Building costs for detached houses (in €/sqm, 2006 data)
Sources: Prognos AG; Immobilienwirtschaft, Special 10/2006; BMFSFJ, 2007; F+B Forschung und Beratung für Wohnen, Immobilien und Umwelt GmbH, 2007; LBS, 2007.