Welcome to WiföG, Burghausen's business development agency!
We are your reliable contact for all aspects of Burghausen as a business location, and are on hand for all businesses looking to expand, restructure or resettle.
Here, you will find detailed information about Burghausen as a cross-border business centre on the Salzach River, as southeast Bavaria's most successful business and investment location, and as one of the wealthiest communities of up to 50,000 inhabitants in Bavaria.
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Burghausen – Economic Hub of Southeast Bavaria
Burghausen is Southeast Bavaria's most successful economic and innovation hub, ranks among the financially strongest municipalities in Bavaria, and exerts a strong pull beyond the state borders. Burghausen's gross domestic product is around €9 billion per year, and the town offers over 19,300 jobs and serves a catchment area of 230,000 people.
In this town of just over 20,000 inhabitants, the world's longest castle not only towers above a picturesque old town, but the world-famous "International Jazz Week" also takes place annually. Burghausen is also:
- an industrial location that has grown over more than 100 years in the Bavarian Chemical Triangle ("ChemDelta Bavaria"), one of the centers of chemical production in southern Germany and the third-largest German chemical cluster.
- Burghausen is home to... for example, the world's largest site of Wacker Chemie AG (approx. 8,100 employees) and the petrochemical company OMV Deutschland GmbH, as well as an efficient network of service and supplier companies. Together, Burghausen's businesses provide over 19,300 jobs.
- With the Burghausen Combined Transport Terminal, the city is a Central European logistics hub with connections to the North and Mediterranean ports and to Western and Eastern European transport routes.
- Since 2016, Burghausen has also been a center for higher education and research, with the "Campus Burghausen/Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences" and the "Study & Science Center Raitenhaslach/Technical University of Munich."
Burghausen – A Business Location with International Future Prospects
Burghausen's highly successful combination of medium-sized industrial service providers and craft businesses with the major chemical and refinery industry sites creates sustainable market potential for the establishment of further processing industries, innovative service providers, and promising start-ups:
Benefit from your business location in Burghausen:
- from the existing synergies of an internationally renowned business location with major global players in the chemical and refinery industry
- from the integrated industrial processes
- from the high demand for industrial services, trade, and crafts
- from integration into Burghausen's service network
- from expansion potential with approximately 50 hectares of available industrial land and more than 5.5 hectares of available commercial land
- in 4 large industrial parks within the city limits, as well as
- from excellent development opportunities for retail, commercial and craft businesses, and the hospitality industry!