Life in Offenbach: An overview

The KOMM shopping center, a weekly market that offers fresh produce three times a week, an extravagant factory outlet or simply a stroll through the shopping street: Offenbach offers numerous possibilities - and short distances.

Offenbach has a high start-up rate: and rightly so, as we offer founders the best opportunities and flexibility. In addition to the ostpol° start-up campus (opens in a new tab) and the loan for founders (opens in a new tab), Offenbach (opens in a new tab) also offers seminars, talks and support.

In addition to one of the most renowned art colleges in Germany, the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG), which teaches around 600 students, Offenbach offers the creative industries a large platform of support. More than 5,000 people in 1,200 companies develop creative ideas here - a location factor that needs to be expanded.

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Offenbach is a city of diversity. This is also reflected in the school landscape. Not only can all types of schools be found in Offenbach: from elementary school to secondary schools and secondary modern schools with special stages to grammar schools, from special schools to private schools and vocational schools. The educational establishments also offer a particularly diverse range of activities to achieve integration and equal opportunities for all. This includes language support as well as sports projects and gifted and talented children as well as lessons in the language of origin.

Education is a top priority in the city: since 2007, Offenbach has invested 250 million euros in the construction and renovation of schools. For the youngest children, Offenbach offers more than 70 daycare centers of various orientations and extensive services in all parts of the city. All information on childcare facilities can be found here: