Mayen-Koblenz - A Quality Location

Over 210,000 people live in Mayen-Koblenz's 81,000+ hectares in the north of the province of Rhineland-Palatinate. Due to its close proximity and ready infrastructure, the independent regional centre of Koblenz is connected closely with the Mayen-Koblenz district.

Qualified specialist employees

The favourable geographical location of the Mayen-Koblenz district is one of the main factors that companies consider when deciding whether to set up in the area. The Mayen-Koblenz economic region offers good conditions for development, and is ideally integrated into both German and European transportation networks.

Both for traditional areas of work and newer sectors, the Mayen-Koblenz region provides forward-looking educational opportunities, which means that companies can find specialist employees both in the Mayen-Koblenz district itself and in the nearby regional centres. New blood for all major jobs are trained and educated in corporate – and sometimes private – institutions. The University of Koblenz-Landau (which offers courses in computer science, computational visualistics and information management, to name a few), the Fachhochschule (University of Applied Sciences) Koblenz and the Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (Otto Bisheim School of Management) in Vallendar provide companies in the region with highly-skilled employees.

Business-related service providers such as tax consultants, business consultants, lawyers and advertising agencies are widely available in the region, and are complemented by industrially-oriented services such as the Technologiezentrum (Technology Centre) Koblenz.

Building Materials and Rocks

The region's volcanically-influenced landscape is transected by the Rhine and Moselle rivers, as well as by numerous streams. There are also three large lakes in and around the Mayen-Koblenz district, including the well-known "Maar Laacher". When the volcano erupted 12,900 years ago, it deposited a thick layer of ash, pumice and rock across the region. Even shale and basalt lava are in plentiful supply below the ground. People have been mining these volcanic jewels and trading the obtained building materials and stones all around Europe for thousands of years.

Sectoral diversity

The building materials, minerals and slate mining industry is not the only field of work for people in the Mayen-Koblenz region. Metal processing, the food industry, mineral springs, breweries, the paper and hygiene industry, and computer technology firms are all sources of employment for the local population. Agriculture, viticulture and animal husbandry have dominated the economy in parts of the region for years. Today, there are approximately 1,200 agricultural enterprises and over 230 hectares of vines along the Rhine and Moselle rivers.

Rhine Moselle Eifel region