Kassel Industrial Park
In the heart of Germany, the Kassel Industrial Park an ideal infrastructure for companies. With a Total area of 550 hectares it is the largest commercial and industrial area in North Hesse. Around 500 companies with over 11,000 employees already use the Central locationthe direct connection to the A7, A44 and A49 highways and the integrated freight center with own Transshipment station. Here you benefit from an established B2B network and diverse growth opportunities on an innovative and good networked Business location.
Kassel Industrial Park: Your access to growth and innovation in northern Hesse
Located in the center of Germany, the city of Kassel with around 200,000 inhabitants is the economic center in northern Hesse with a catchment area for around one million people. It is a service center, commercial hub and Modern industrial location with numerous national and international companies. The around 25,000 students, With around 25,000 students, the innovative climate. Kassel is also a city in the countryside with the UNESCO World Heritage Site Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe. The Kassel Industrial Park consists of five large areas:
Kassel Industrial Park Network
© Wirtschaftsförderung Region Kassel
© Wirtschaftsförderung Region Kassel
© Wirtschaftsförderung Region Kassel
The Kassel Industrial Park Network - initiated and coordinated by the Wirtschaftsförderung Region Kassel - unites for over 20 years the companies located in the Kassel Industrial Park. It works non-commercially, concentrates on the interests of the companies, promotes their mutual exchange and anchors the diversity of the products and services there in the public eye.
Formats such as the Industrial Park Dialog, cooperation projects such as regioUP! and joint events with the Foreign Trade Forum underline the network work. The open guiding principle of the network work is: "From information to communication to cooperation" - The focus is on personal contact.
Industrial Park Dialog
Since its premiere in 2012, the Kassel Industrial Park Network has been inviting companies once a year to the Industrial Park Dialogue, a business card fair within the network. Here, company representatives and network partners can get to know each other in an informal atmosphere and exchange information about their offers and services. The trade fair has become a highlight in the industrial park calendar.
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Partner of the Kassel Industrial Park network
regioUP! - Training and career fair
At the regioUP! training and careers fair, numerous companies introduce themselves to young people with their opportunities and training occupations. In this way, they highlight the Kassel Industrial Park in its important role as a training and employment location for the Kassel region.
regioUP! is organized by BZ Bildungszentrum Kassel GmbH together with partners and Netzwerk Industriepark Kassel. regioUP! offers a unique market for networking training and careers as well as a place where information on all aspects of training and further education can be obtained.
Location of the Kassel Industrial Park
The Kassel Industrial Park is directly accessible via several Connected to the A 7, A 44 and A 49 highways. The ICE station in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe is in 15 minutes, the Kassel Airport in 25 minutesPaderborn Airport can be reached in 55 minutes. Also exemplary are the Public transport connections to the regional center of Kassel and to neighboring communities, the frequency of which is adapted to the working hours.
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Further key data on the Kassel Industrial Park
| Size of the area | Standard land values | |
| Kassel-Waldau Industrial Park | approx. 220 ha | Link to map with current data |
| Industrial park Kassel-Niederzwehren | approx. 76 ha | Link to map with current data |
| Freight Center Kassel (GVZ) |
approx. 85 ha |
Link to map with current data |
| Fuldabrück industrial estate | approx. 54 ha | Link to map with current data |
| Lohfelden industrial estate | approx. 114 ha (of which "Lohfeldener Rüssel" approx. 23 ha) | Link to map with current data |
| Kassel Industrial Park, total | approx. 550 ha |
The standard land values stated here are based on past experience and are for guidance purposes only. Current sales prices depend, among other things, on the location, layout and usability of the property as well as the current market conditions and may differ. Further information on economic data for the Kassel region can be found on our website on the topic Economic data and infrastructure.
Map material at Hesse/district level: Hessian State Office for Land Management and Geoinformation; Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy
Public transport offer
The populated areas of the Kassel Industrial Park are well served by several bus lines with frequent services. The area of the Kassel-Niederzwehren industrial park will also be integrated into the public bus network once the development has been completed.
Freight center with transshipment station
The Kassel Industrial Park has an integrated Transshipment station for combined transport. This makes the European overseas ports accessible.
Electricity / gas / heat supply
The municipal utilities provide the required connections in the desired dimensions. Talk to us about this.
Telecommunications
In the Kassel Industrial Park, broadband is available via a fiber optic network.
Post
The Kassel Industrial Park is home to a Deutsche Post mail distribution center with a "night mailbox".
Kassel Vocational Training Center (BZ Kassel)
BZ Kassel, the competence center for training, further education and qualification services for the North Hessian economy, is located directly in the industrial park. The modern campus for vocational training is one of the top 10 in Germany.
Trade fairs / conferences / congresses
The Messehallen Kassel, which are conveniently located in the immediate vicinity of the industrial park, offer rooms, outdoor areas and all the services required for a successful event. The Kongress Palais, located near the ICE train station in the west of Kassel, can also be booked for special events. It was the first conference center in Germany to be certified with the Green Globe in 2009.
Gastronomy / Hotels
Several hotels are located directly in the Kassel Industrial Park. In the immediate vicinity as well as in the city of Kassel and the surrounding communities, there are numerous other accommodation options ranging from two stars to four stars. Catering facilities can be found throughout the industrial park. In addition to the new SVG car park directly on the A7, the capacities in the hotels, at Ikea and in some public company canteens can also be used
- Accademia (Gobietstraße 6, 34123)
- Alpha Senli canteen (Falderbaumstraße 41, 34123)
- BZ canteen (Falderbaumstraße 18, 34123)
- Höffner chef's hat (Albert-Einstein-Straße 4, 34277)
- Mannamia (Falderbaumstraße 9, 34123)
- Café May Garden (Kasseler Straße 70, 34123)
- Mecki's Garden Cafe (Albert-Einstein-Straße 3, 34277)
- Autohof Lohfeldener Rüssel (Alexander-von-Humboldt-Straße 1, 34253)
Former aviation site in Waldau
Early flying days (1910-1923)
In 1910, the first public air shows were held on the forest grounds outside Waldau, establishing the area as a local airfield. In the following years, workshops such as Dietrich-Gobiet-Flugzeugbau AG were established, paving the way for a permanent infrastructure.
Commercial airport and pioneering achievements (1924-1932)
The Kassel commercial airport officially opened in 1924; in 1926 it was integrated into the German Lufthansa route network. Waldau was thus briefly connected to international routes. In 1927, the airport made aviation history when a glider was towed into the air for the first time.
Armaments and production under National Socialism (1933-1945)
The Fieseler works gave the site military significance from 1936. Among other things, the Fi 156 "Storch" reconnaissance aircraft and the Me 109 were produced under license. The airfield itself was given a concrete runway in 1939 and was increasingly used by the Luftwaffe.
Post-war use and civilian return (1945-1970)
After the end of the war, the US Air Force set up Airfield Y-96; in 1955, the field returned to civilian sport and private aviation. This phase ended in 1970 with the opening of the new Kassel-Calden Airport.
Source: District Center Agathof e.V.
Development of the Kassel Industrial Park
As early as 1965, the newly founded Union SB - Großmarkt und Co KG was the first 'large company' to settle in the industrial park. There were no roads at that time. In order to make the estate accessible to traffic, Edeka built a feeder road, which today forms part of Falderbaumstraße.
Another important date in 1968 was the evacuation of the former Fieseler aircraft factory II by the American army and the simultaneous release of the halls for industrial use. The city and state of Kassel quickly began to consider an industrial area on the site. 'Planning knows no boundaries' was the headline in the HNA newspaper on November 16, 1968, when the promising project was presented.
Initial development work for the Waldau Industrial Park began in the winter of 1968. A large sign draws attention to the new industrial area from winter 68/69.
Start of company relocations
The year 1969 marked the time when things really got going. Planning began to be turned into reality - in the form of concrete company settlements. Probably the first contract between the city of Kassel and a company was the contract with the company Ladenbau Maier (later Maier and Pistor), which planned and built sales facilities for bakeries, butchers, cafés and the like worldwide. The Fuldabrück-Bergshausen site was also in full swing at this time. Böker-Brot, a large-scale bakery that later launched the nationally renowned 'Golden Toast' bread brand, set up shop here.
In March 1970, the Hessian Ministry of Economics commissioned the city and district of Kassel to develop a joint concept for economic development in order to prioritize the new industrial area. By 1970, around 200,000 of the 835,000 square meters available had already been allocated to companies such as AEG/Telefunken, Johanniter Quelle E und H Kropf, the furniture wholesaler Friedrich Flamme and Hervis Hermann Visser Kleiderfabrik.
Expansion project: Lohfelden industrial estate under construction
The companies were not the only ones to benefit from their choice of location. Kassel and the municipality of Lohfelden, which had ceded part of the site to the city in 1975, were also hoping for tax revenue and jobs. The infrastructure was still lacking, roads, sewers, electricity and water pipes had to be built and laid. In 1977, the long-awaited green light was given for the additional development of the Waldau-Lohfelden area. Further industrial companies were now to be established here. The Hessische Landes- und Treuhandgesellschaft (HLT) was commissioned with the planning, development, advertising and financing.
The ground-breaking ceremony for the development of the Waldau-Lohfelden industrial estate took place in October 1978. It was to be "the most important industrial and commercial development project in the North Hesse region", according to Karlheinz Zahn, Managing Director of the Hessische Landesentwicklungs- und Treuhandgesellschaft (HLT) at the time. The contract between the city of Kassel and the HLT was already signed in December 1977: 120 hectares of land on the city boundary near Waldau and Lohfelden were to be developed and sold to industrial companies by 1985. The estimated cost of the project, which was to contribute to structural improvements in the Kassel conurbation, was 80 million marks. 23 million had to be borne by the city of Kassel, the rest came from the state.
1980s to mid-2000s
The Kassel-Mitte freeway junction was a good prerequisite for the rapid development of the new industrial estate. In addition, construction work was already underway on the "Südtangente" (today's A 49) and the connecting road between federal highways 7 and 83, which was intended to open up the Waldau industrial park.
Under the motto: "Only those who offer industry qualified locations have a chance of surviving the competition in the relocation markets", the first 'real' ground-breaking ceremony marked the expansion of the Waldau-Ost area in 1983. The architectural firm RSE was one of the first companies to construct the new company buildings in Heinrich-Hertz-Straße in the new Waldau-Ost area.
At the end of the 1980s, the Waldau-West industrial park was extended by around 100 hectares to the east, as the initially planned areas to the west were no longer sufficient. A good two decades after the ground-breaking ceremony for the industrial estate, 6,000 employees had found work here in around 160 companies. Over the years, further areas were developed and opened up, which are now part of the industrial park, such as the Kassel Freight Village (2003) and the Lohfeldener Rüssel (2006). Since then, numerous other manufacturing and export-oriented companies, global logistics players, wholesalers and retailers, specialized service providers and craft businesses have settled here.
Today's Kassel Industrial Park
Today, there are more than 500 companies in the industrial park, which together employ over 10,000 people. Predominantly medium-sized companies manufacture products for the global market here, for example gangway systems for trains and buses, transport equipment and luggage trolleys for airports or special machines and system components for the automotive industry. A wide range of innovative regional and supra-regional service providers complete the local offering: whether fleet management, construction and architectural services, IT and communication services, logistics services, service centers or hotels - the list is long. Important educational institutions are also located here, for example the Kassel training center of the chambers or the vocational school of the German carpentry trade. The furniture, DIY and garden markets in the area also ensure a high footfall, especially at weekends.
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