In 2011, Ticona, an international manufacturer of engineering polymers, moved to Industriepark Höchst because it had to abandon its location in Kelsterbach due to its closeness to the newly constructed fourth runway at Frankfurt Airport. national railway company were located in Frankfurt. Today, the Deutsche Bahn subsidiaries DB Fernverkehr, DB Regio, DB Stadtverkehr, DB Netz and the corporate development department of Deutsche Bahn are still based in Frankfurt. In 2010, DB Schenker, the logistics subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, announced that it would move its headquarters to Frankfurt in early 2012, together with 330 employees from offices in Berlin, Mainz and Essen. Systems is based in Frankfurt. COLT is a telecommunications company with its German headquarters based in Frankfurt. Level 3 Communications is an internet service provider company with its German headquarters based in Frankfurt.
Frankfurt is an important location for electronic communication, especially the Internet. Mainova is the largest regional energy supplier in Germany with about one million customers in Hesse. It provides electricity, gas, heat and water.
The Mainova Headquarters are located in Frankfurt. Not located in Frankfurt but within the urban area are several important companies. city limits in the west and attracts businesses with significantly lower corporate taxes compared to Frankfurt. Other major companies in Eschborn are Vodafone Germany, Randstad Holding and VR Leasing.
Deutsche Börse moved most of its employees to Eschborn in 2010 but has its headquarters still registered in Frankfurt. Rüsselsheim is internationally known for its automobile manufacturer Opel, one of the biggest automobile manufacturers in Germany. employees in 2003, Opel was one of the five largest employers in Hesse. Offenbach am Main is home to the European headquarters of automobile manufacturer Hyundai Motor Company, to the German headquarters of automobile manufacturer Honda, to Honeywell Germany and to Deutscher Wetterdienst, the central scientific agency that monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany.
KGaA and Fresenius Medical Care. Packard, Bridgestone, Deutsche Leasing and Basler Versicherungen. Kronberg im Taunus is home of the German headquarters of automobile manufacturer Jaguar Cars as well as the German headquarters of management consulting company Accenture.
Lufthansa Systems, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, is located in Kelsterbach. Langen is home to Deutsche Flugsicherung, the German air traffic control. inhabitants, Frankfurt has the highest concentration of jobs in Germany. inhabitants of the city itself is explained by the high number of commuters who work in the city, which raises the per capita GDP of the resident population significantly.
On work days and Saturdays there are around one million people within the city limits. such as Bad Homburg, Königstein im Taunus, Kronberg im Taunus and Bad Soden am Taunus, many of whose inhabitants work in Frankfurt. produced by the University of Liverpool, Frankfurt is the richest city in Europe by GDP per capita, followed by Karlsruhe, Paris and Munich.
inhabitants are satisfied or highly satisfied with the city, only 6 percent said that they are dissatisfied. survey the number of satisfied inhabitants has grown about 22 percent while the number of dissatisfied inhabitants was reduced by 8 percent. percent of the inhabitants like to live in Frankfurt, 13 percent would rather choose to live somewhere else.
secondly most of the registered crimes are not affecting the majority of the population, like smuggling or offenses against the Air Traffic Act at the airport, fare evasion and credit card abuse. percent and therefore lower than the average compared to other German cities. Frankfurt has the highest concentration of home owners in Germany. property market often operates differently than the rest of the country where the prices are generally much flatter than Frankfurt.
German property prices are pulled down nationally because of the former East Germany, however, economically sound cities like Frankfurt and other cities in the west of Germany, have a buoyant housing market, which attracts a lot of buyers from the Far East. is an institution of the European Union and part of the European System of Financial Supervisors which was created in response to the financial crisis. The EIOPA is located in the Westhafen Tower in Frankfurt. the other being Bonn. The BaFin is an independent federal institution and acts as the financial regulatory authority for Germany.
which is part of the World Bank Group. The IFC promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries. the other being Leipzig. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek is the largest universal library in Germany.
speaking emigrants published abroad between 1933 and 1945, and to make them available to the public. rise building in the Gutleutviertel district. million unionists in 2011. Umwelt, a union for construction and engineering workers, Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft, a union for teachers, and Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer, a union for train drivers, are also based in Frankfurt. or short VDA, moved from Frankfurt to Berlin.
The VDA is the organiser of one of the most important trade fairs in Frankfurt, the Frankfurt Motor Show, but the relocation does not affect this as it is agreen upon that the motor show will be held in Frankfurt until 2019 at the least. Frankfurt hosts 92 consulates. Worldwide, only New York City and Hamburg have more foreign representations, excluding capital cities. Russia and China have recently opened general consulates in Frankfurt. The Consulate General of the United States in Frankfurt in Eckenheim is the largest American consulate in the world. Two important daily newspapers are published in Frankfurt.
The conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, also known as FAZ, was founded in 1949 and is the German newspaper with the widest circulation outside of Germany, with its editors claiming to deliver the newspaper to 148 countries every day. Several magazines also originate from Frankfurt. orientated magazine which focuses on ecological topics. in the Dornbusch district and is one of the most important radio and television broadcasters in Hesse, with additional studios in Kassel, Darmstadt and Fulda. Bloomberg TV and RTL Television have regional studios in Frankfurt.
had broadcasted from Frankfurt. location in Frankfurt has been closed with AFN now broadcasting from Mannheim. Frankfurt is home to the German office of Reuters, the global news agency. In Frankfurt am Main, there are two universities and several specialist schools. known university in the city is the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, with locations in Bockenheim, Westend, and Riedberg, and the university hospital in Niederrad. House of Finance at Campus Westend.
was created out of several older organisations in 1971, and offers over 38 study areas, in the arts, sciences, engineering and law. Since 2001, it has been a specialist institution for the teaching Economics and Management, or FOM. Frankfurt has the State Institution of Higher Learning for Artistic Education known as the Städelschule, founded in 1817 by Johann Friedrich Städel, that was taken over by the city in 1942 and turned into a state art school.
which was founded in 1878. Until September 2003, Frankfurt was also home to a school for library science and administration. private institution with membership in the German Jesuit Association, has been located in Sachsenhausen since 1950. Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, and the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, sponsored by several institutional and private sources, is involved in theoretical research in physics, chemistry, neuroscience, and computer science.
the German Archaeological Institute branch for prehistoric archaeology in Germany and Europe. The RGK is involved in a variety of research projects. volumes, is one of the largest specialised archaeological libraries in the world. infrastructure of its schools. As a result, schools in Frankfurt now rank among the best equipped schools nationwide as far as availability of PCs and other media facilities are concerned. The city hosts also the annual Frankfurt Marathon and the Iron Man European Championships.
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