Facts and figures about the PrimeSite Rhine Region
The site
The PrimeSite Rhine Region covers an area of 205 hectares, which is equivalent to about 300 football fields.
177 hectares of the PrimeSite Rhine Region lie within the town boundary of Euskirchen, while 28 hectares belong to the municipality of Weilerswist.
The PrimeSite Rhine Region is part of the LEP (Landesentwicklungsplan = state development plan) of North Rhine-Westphalia.
In terms of planning law, all the necessary permits are in place or can be procured at short notice.
Development facilitates supplyaccording to individual specifications: Electricity from an on-site sub-station, drinking water, industrial water and groundwater well, waste water disposal, high-pressure natural gas pipeline, and broadband Internet are provided.
Further reserve areas are available on demand.
The infrastructure
The A1 and A61 freeways are 5 kilometers away and accessible without passing through built-up areas.
The private railway siding links the PrimeSite Rhine Region directly to Germany's largest container rail terminal Cologne Eifeltor (30 km).
4 international airports serve the region:
Cologne/Bonn (30 km)
Düsseldorf (65 km)
Frankfurt am Main (140 km)
Maastricht (80 km)
The Rhine ports in Cologne (30 km) provide direct access to the North Sea, the Baltic and the Black Sea.
The Rhine Region
The PrimeSite Rhine Region lies in the triangle formed by the cities Cologne, Bonn and Aachen.
Facts and figures:
Population: approx. 8 million
Area: nearly 13,000 km²
Population density: 590 people per km²
Gross domestic product: around 237 billion euros p.a.
27 universities and universities of applied sciences
8 Fraunhofer Institutes, 8 Max Planck Institutes, and over 100 other research facilities
Approx. 7,500 foreign companies, including 3M, Procter & Gamble, Ford, Toyota, UPS, QVC and Vodafone control their German and European activities from here.
By comparison: The region is larger than the Paris metropolitan area. It has more inhabitants than Switzerland and is more densely populated than the Netherlands. The region generates a gross domestic product comparable to that of Austria.
