Oldenburg

Oldenburg is a central city located in the northwest of Germany with an area of 10,297 square kilometers and a population of 159,150 (till Sept, 30, 2013 ). It is 30 kilometers to the North Sea, and the city borders on the Netherlands in the west (about 132 kilometers apart between Oldenburg and Groningen, Hamburg(the two places are 168km apart) in the east, and Hanover, the capital city of the state of Saxony in the south (the two places are 169km apart), and is next to Bremen(50km apart).  It is only about 50km from Oldenburg to Jade Weser Port, the largest deepwater port in Germany. It enjoys excellent infrastructures such as network of high efficiency and convenience in expressway (A28, A29), railway, inland and coastal roads, all offering great convenience to the development of its economy.

The economy in Oldenburg includes finance, business, service industry, the supply of auto spare parts, printing, electronics technology, logistics, food processing, informatics, biological medicine, new energy, etc.. It has been elected as “Business friendly city in Germany” by Wirtschafts Woche, which has made Oldenburg being re-recognized as a promising city. As the educational base in the northwest of Germany, Oldenburg possesses 2 Universities of Engineering & Technology, 1 International university (European Medicine School), many science schools, and vocational schools, except Oldenburg University (including 11,500 students). The high quality of talent pool here ensures the demand of human resource relating to all  areas of life including energy, sustainable development & environment technology, information and communication technology, creative industries, chemistry and biotechnology, banking and insurance, business information company, health care industry and retail industry with great creativity.

Oldenburg is a diversified city as well as one that can provide people with a life of high quality and cultural recreations. Oldenburg has been rich in the cultivation and deposit of art and creativity due to its traditional center of earls and dukes in history, and from then on, people here paid great attention to the development of education, which has been inherited in the course of history. Horst-Janssen-Museum, located in the center of the city, encompasses a large number of original works of Horst Jansen in 1970s, an Oldenburg artist, as well as works of many artists influenced by him.