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Editorial | Welcome to the Black Forest
Welcome to the Black Forest For centuries the Black Forest has been associated with water, tranquillity, health and culture. It has long been the preferred destination of rulers, royalty and literary figures from all over the world seeking to restore their health. Here they can find world-renowned medical specialists, cosmopolitan restaurants offering international specialities, and an extraordinary array of Nobel Laureates stemming from the remarkable city of Strasbourg.
Germany has long been a healthcare destination of choice in the Arab world. We hope that the information provided here will assist you in your search for excellence. We look forward to welcoming you here soon!
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Sunset in the Black Forest
Nature | The Black Forest – Home to Health
The Black Forest – Home to Health The Black Forest’s association with health and well-being stretches back several centuries. Running close to the fashionable, world-famous spa resort of Baden-Baden, the Black Forest Spa Route also passes through Bad PeterstalGriesbach and Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach. Situated at almost 1000 metres above sea level, this latter resort is the Black Forest’s highest mineral and mud spa. Many people have enjoyed the spa facilities here, including the famous poet Rainer Maria Rilke, the composer Johannes Brahms and the French novelist Victor Hugo. As well as savouring the fresh Black Forest air and benefiting from the healing springs, they also applied the mud packs which are particularly favoured nowadays for degenerative spinal diseases and chronic back pain. Bad Peterstal provides inpatient and outpatient treatment for cardiovascular diseases, spine and joint pain, rheumatic
The Friedrichsbad baths in Baden-Baden
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disorders, metabolic disorders (diabetes mellitus), psychosomatic conditions such as burnout syndrome, and gynaecological disorders. 4|5
Water has healing properties
Nature | The Healing Effects of Water
The Healing Effects of Water ‘Detox’ may sound like a fairly modern kind of beauty treatment, but the idea has actually been around for a surprisingly long time. Originally referred to as a ‘drinking cure’, its popularity spread from Baden to Vienna and on to Bath in England, Spa in Belgium, and all the many towns in the northern Black Forest whose names begin with the word ‘Bad’. The Greek philosopher Thales von Milet was one of the first to extol water as a primordial element of the universe, claiming: „the principle of all things is water; all comes from water, and to water all returns”.
Water has a curative effect – but not every water cures the same diseases. In Germany spa water is classed as a medicinal product which requires regulatory approval. The town of Bad Peterstal-Griesbach bottles famous curative mineral waters such as ‘Bad Griesbacher Heilwasser’, which is particularly beneficial for the gastrointestinal tract and for chronic urinary tract infections. Gem water also comes from here, with water from the Antonius spring (Schwarzwald Sprudel) passing through a filter made from the purest quality gemstones. Meanwhile ‘Black Forest Still’ (Peterstaler Mineralquellen) has such a low level of mineralisation that it can even be given to babies, and Hornberger Lebensquell water is also recommended for ‘drinking cures’, again because of its low level of mineralisation and the fact that it is low in sodium.
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Sunset in the Black Forest hills
Nature | Breathtaking Trails Along the Black Forest High Road
Breathtaking Trails Along the Black Forest High Road The Schwarzwaldhochstrasse, or ‘Black Forest High Road’, is the oldest and most attractive scenic drive in Germany’s highest central upland region. Situated at a height of between 600 and 1000 metres, the road offers visitors glorious views of the Black Forest, stretching as far as the plain of the Rhine and the French Vosges mountains. The perfect place to begin a journey along the Black Forest High Road is the spa town of Baden-Baden. Steep and curving, the road winds its way up to Bühlerhöhe, home to the famous Max Grundig Clinic. This is the place to take a deep breath and savour the healthy and invigorating Black Forest air. In winter skiers can enjoy the superbly maintained cross-country trails and perfectly groomed slopes. Below the Hornisgrinde – at 1163 metres the highest peak in the northern Black Forest – is the Mummelsee
glacial lake, a relic of the last Ice Age which is often referred to as one of the ‘dark eyes’ of the Black Forest. The source of numerous legends and fairy tales, the Mummelsee is fabled to be the home of water nymphs and supernatural forces. Following the crest of the Schliffkopf, the Black Forest High Road provides access to hundreds of breathtakingly beautiful hiking and mountain bike trails which wend their way through the so-called ‘Grinden’, or treeless wet heaths, on the highland slopes. On clear days you can see the Alps in the distance – and hikers may be lucky enough to catch glimpses of wood grouse, golden eagles and perhaps even a peregrine falcon.
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The beauty of nature
Nature | A Strikingly Beautiful National Park
A Strikingly Beautiful National Park A forest in which nothing has been felled – and no fallen trees cleared away – for over 100 years has evolved into a form of ancient woodland in the heart of the Black Forest.
Wolves are returning to the forests
Hushed, mysterious and extraordinarily beautiful, this protected woodland in the Black Forest National Park is one of the region’s most striking natural wonders.
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The world-famous Europa Park theme park
The Vogtsbauernhof open-air museum
The art of glass blowing in the DorotheenhĂźtte Glass Museum
Nature | Combining Tradition and Modernity
Combining Tradition and Modernity The 4* hotels ‘Bell Rock’, ‘Colosseo’, ‘Santa Isabel’, ‘Castillo Alcazar’ and ‘El Andaluz’ offer guests southern European flair, a trip to New England, and a trip back in time to the Middle Ages. Located at the heart of Europa Park, the world-famous theme park resort, they offer a truly unforgettable holiday experience.
The ‘Dorotheenhütte’ hand-blown glassworks and museum allows visitors to watch experts in glass-making and grinding at work, stroll through the showrooms and glassmaking facilities, and acquire stunning pieces of glass artwork.
The Vogtsbauernhof farmhouse on the road from Offenburg to Hornberg dates back over 400 years. Today it’s BadenWürttemberg’s oldest open-air museum, showing how people lived, worked and thrived in the Black Forest in centuries gone by.
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Strasbourg has several famous department stores
Nature | Shopping in Style in the Region‘s Big Cities
Shopping in Style in the Region’s Big Cities From Place Kléber to Place des Halles, Strasbourg is packed with exclusive boutique shops selling globally renowned brands. Whether you’re looking for prêt-à-porter or luxury goods, one-off items or vintage pieces, the capital city of the Alsace region has enough specialist outlets and big department stores to suit everyone’s taste.
The Ortenau region lies at the heart of Europe and is easy to reach from anywhere in the world. The airports in Basel, Strasbourg, Baden-Baden, Stuttgart, and Frankfurt are no more than two hours away by car. And when you arrive there are plenty of exclusive vehicles and limousines to hire, including Rolls Royce, Jaguar and Mercedes.
And you’ll experience plenty of luxury, glamour, and international flair shopping in Baden-Baden, too. Prada, Cartier, Patek Philippe, Escada, Jil Sander, Armani, Hermès, and many other exclusive brands can all be found here – just make sure you find time to enjoy a cake embellished with gold leaf at Café König!
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The historic race track in Iffezheim
Nature | Iffezheim: The Classic ‘It’ Place for Horse Lovers
Iffezheim: The Classic ‘It’ Place for Horse Lovers For over 150 years thoroughbreds have been competing at the world-famous Iffezheim Racecourse just a few kilometres from the city of Baden-Baden, offering some of the biggest highlights in the social and sporting calendar. The celebrated ‘Grosser Preis von Baden’ race is held every September during the Grand Festival Week. Run over the classic Derby distance of 2,400 metres, the Group 1 flat horse race has won international acclaim. The legendary mare Kincsem and the German stallion Oleander are the only horses to have achieved three victories in this major race, which is open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older.
The perfect venue for horse racing enthusiasts
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Ortenberg Castle
Nature | Castles, Manor Houses, and Nature at Its Best
Castles, Manor Houses, and Nature at Its Best The Ortenau region features more than 112 castles and stately homes, some of which were built over 1,000 years ago. These fascinating buildings have become popular tourist attractions which evoke memories of historical events and famous figures from the past. Towering almost 400 metres above the roofs of Durbach, Staufenberg Castle offers visitors one of the most breathtaking views over Offenburg and the French Vosges mountains. Now owned by the Margrave of Baden, the castle’s walls have stood watch for nearly 1,000 years.
of Henry the Lion. The basement of Schauenburg Castle now contains a small museum. Triberg Falls is one of the highest and best-known waterfalls in Germany. One of those inspired by its beauty was the writer Ernest Hemingway, who happily whiled away the hours fishing in this cool Black Forest valley. The Gutach River plunges 163 metres down the falls, providing a magnificent natural spectacle of thundering, foaming water.
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The Max Grundig Clinic on the Bühlerhöhe
Health | The Max Grundig Clinic: 5-Star Check-Up Service
The Max Grundig Clinic: 5-Star Check-Up Service Idyllically situated on the Bühlerhöhe heights of the Black Forest High Road, the Max Grundig Clinic is in a class of its own. It has just 62 beds, yet offers everything you would expect from a state-of-the-art hospital of internal medicine. As well as outstanding medical facilities, it also offers the deluxe atmosphere, service and restaurant facilities of a fivestar hotel. “Half of our patients travel here from the Middle East,” says Professor Curt Diehm. The medical director of the Max Grundig Clinic is the personal physician to prestigious Saudi Arabian families for whom he is on call 24 hours a day – just like his 18 professional colleagues. The renowned German businessman Max Grundig not only gave the hospital his name, but also provided it with the vision of narrative-based medicine, a concept that allows physicians and staff members to devote all the time in the world to their patients. “Our duty first and foremost is to engage with our patients and to have the medical expertise to know what we’re looking for and recognise it when we find it,” says Professor Diehm.
The hospital of internal medicine specialises in gastroenterology, cardiology, oncology, rheumatology, nephrology, orthopaedics, angiology, urology and gynaecology. It also boasts a superb check-up centre which offers the fastest and most comprehensive route to an effective diagnosis. The clinic favours intelligent laboratory algorithms, magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound examinations because these methods are painless, risk-free and allow reliable treatment monitoring. It also employs endoscopies as a standard procedure for reaching a definitive diagnosis. “Should we decide that further diagnostics and treatment are necessary, we can immediately refer our patients to colleagues all over Europe who enjoy worldwide renown in their fields. Once treatment has been successfully completed, we offer our patients the chance to return to us for a phase of convalescence or rehabilitation,” Professor Diehm adds. With seven interpreters and physicians who all speak English and/or French, patients have the reassurance of knowing that they can communicate freely and in confidence with their medical team. 20 | 21
Doctors provide prostheses to over 1.000 patients a year in Gengenbach
Health | Outstanding Hospitals and Renowned Specialists
Outstanding Hospitals and Renowned Specialists European Hand Trauma Centre in Offenburg
Endoprosthetics Centre at Offenburg-Gengenbach Hospital
Certified by the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand, the hand surgery centre at Ortenau Hospital in Offenburg is one of the largest centres of expertise of its kind in Germany. “Treating serious hand injuries requires tremendous expertise and specialist skills, because the anatomy of the hand is so complex,” explains Dr. Eike Mrosek. He is the head of department und leads a team of trauma & hand surgeons. The hand surgery department is part of a certified trauma center, treating injuries of all degrees of severity, including injuries oft he vertebral column and the pelvis.
The ‘Ortenau Klinikum Offenburg-Gengenbach’ includes an endoprosthetics centre which offers state-of-the-art care. More than 1,000 patients a year are fitted with artificial devices to replace their knee, hip, elbow, shoulder and ankle joints. “The patients we treat at our certified endoprosthetics centre here in Gengenbach have the reassurance of knowing that we offer a truly extraordinary level of expertise in artificial joint replacements,” says Bruno Schweigert, senior consultant in orthopaedics and trauma surgery, special orthopaedic surgery and orthopaedic rheumatology.
Dr. Eike Mrosek
Dr. Bruno Schweigert
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Dr. Jan Hilberath
Professor Ralf Sodian
Hybrid operating theatre in the Heart Centre
Professor Eberhard Freiherr von Hodenberg
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Carsten Schwänen
Kathrin Heuing
Health | Promoting Health Across Borders
Promoting Health Across Borders MediClin Heart Center Lahr The MediClin Heart Center Lahr/Baden is one of Germany’s most modern specialized hospitals. In 2015 it was ranked as one of the country’s premier hospitals in the fields of cardiac surgery and cardiology in one of the most extensive comparisons of German healthcare institutions. The MediClin Heart Center has performed open heart surgery on more than 30,000 patients, and it has carried out more bypass operations without a heart-lung machine than any other hospital in Germany. The hospital management team consists of Professor Ralf Sodian (Head of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery), Professor Eberhard Freiherr von Hodenberg (Head of Internal Medicine and Cardiology) and Dr. Jan Hilberath (Head of Anesthesiology). The Hospital Director is Kathrin Heuing.
Cooperation between Ortenau Oncology Centre and Paul Strauss Cancer Centre in Strasbourg With the goal of improving the treatment and care of cancer patients, the Ortenau Oncology Centre (OZO) at Ortenau Hospital and the Paul Strauss Centre in Strasbourg have embarked on an interdisciplinary form of collaboration. “That has enabled us to optimise the holistic care we provide to all our cancer patients by tapping into the very latest research findings – and at the same time it means we’re supporting not only basic research, but also translational and clinical research,” explains Priv.-Doz. Dr. Carsten Schwänen, Director of the OZO. This approach makes it possible to develop new diagnostic and treatment methods which offer additional benefits to patients.
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The Parkinson’s Disease Clinic Ortenau in Wolfach
Health | The Premier Choice for Parkinson’s Patients
The Premier Choice for Parkinson’s Patients The Parkinson’s Disease Clinic Ortenau has over 60 years of experience in treating patients with Parkinson’s disease. “We show our patients that they are our number one priority by offering highly personalised all-round care,” says senior consultant Professor Wolfgang Jost. This specialised clinic in the heart of the Black Forest also regularly plays host to experts, researchers and medical
Professor Wolfgang Jost
consultants who come here to pool their knowledge on the latest insights into treating Parkinson’s disease. The Parkinson’s Disease Clinic has also been working closely with Freiburg University Hospital since Wolfgang Jost took charge of the Freiburg outpatient clinic for movement disorders. Jost is a nationally and internationally acclaimed expert in movement disorders and the author of a key work on therapies employing localised injections with botulinum toxin, which has been approved for the treatment of blepharospasm (involuntary tight closure of the eyelids) torticollis (wry neck), hemifacial spasm (involuntary muscle contractions on one side of the face), arm spasticity after a stroke, and chronic migraine. Professor Jost provides an exceptional level of care to patients in the Botulinum toxin outpatient clinic at the Parkinson’s Disease Clinic Ortenau. 26 | 27
The Oberbergklinik in Hornberg
Health | Tranquillity to Revitalise Your Soul
Tranquillity to Revitalise Your Soul Psychological disorders such as depression, exhaustion, burn-out, and post-traumatic stress disorders can all be successfully treated at the Oberbergklinik in Hornberg in the Black Forest. “It’s important to us that our patients feel at home in our clinic, because that’s vital for the healing process. That’s why we offer a comfortable, luxurious atmosphere which respects our patient’s privacy,” explains Dr. med. Andreas Wahl-Kordon, medical director of the Oberbergklinik in the Black Forest. The clinic offers 60 beds and has a closely-knit team of 22 psychologists, six doctors, five physical therapists, and four art therapists. These experts work together with specially trained nursing staff to support their patients through every phase of the treatment process. Dr. med. Andreas Wahl-Kordon specialises in healthcare and psychotherapy research for anxiety and compulsive disorders as well as cognitive behavioural therapy, the latest evidence-based methods of psychotherapy, and health coaching.
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Andreas Wahl-Kordon
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The National and University Library of Strasbourg
Research | The Upper Rhine – Home to Scientific Excellence
The Upper Rhine – Home to Scientific Excellence Strasbourg Nobel Prize The upper course of the Rhine between Basel and Strasbourg is home to a world-renowned cluster of biotechnology and medical technology firms. United by the belief that the 21st century marks a period of sustainable development and respect for life, 900 companies in this region perform a combined total of 40 percent of the world’s biotechnology research. The sector is also inspired and nurtured by Offenburg University of Applied Sciences and the University of Strasbourg. This latter centre of learning boasts a Nobel Laureate in the form of Jules Hoffmann, who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Hoffmann, who works as the research director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a professor at the University of Strasbourg, won the prize for his work on the functioning of the immune system.
Dr. Osypka Chair at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences Modern cardiac pacemaker electrodes would be inconceivable in their current form without Dr.-Ing. Peter Osypka. The founder of the company Osypka AG in Rheinfelden is also the originator of radiofrequency catheter ablation, a treatment for cardiac arrhythmias. As an Honorary Senator of Offenburg University he guaranteed the funding required to construct a new research institute on the Offenburg campus. This institute drives forward the development of life-saving cardiology and enables students to conduct experiments in the fields of pacemaker and defibrillator therapy.
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Companies | Medical Technology and World-Famous Brands from Ortenau
Medical Technology and World-Famous Brands from Ortenau Many people associate Ortenau with the idea of gentle strolls at the foot of the Black Forest hills or along the Rhine with views of the Alsace capital, Strasbourg. Yet Ortenau is also the most industrialised area in the Upper Rhine region, playing host to a wide variety of sectors including mechanical engineering, metalworking, automotive, media and logistics. It is also home to big global players in the field of medical technology such as Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG. This Offenburg-based company, which specialises in cleaning and disinfection technology, has built up a solid reputation for German engineering excellence and
outstandingly efficient hygiene solutions in university and general hospitals worldwide. Another key name in the hygiene and infection control industry is Etol. Based in Oppenau, this company has made a name for itself with the chemical components of hygiene management strategies for kitchens and utility rooms as well as a range of pharmaceuticals. The third pillar of the Ortenau industrial sector is plastics engineering, which plays an integral part in the production of numerous medical devices.
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Companies | Medical Technology and World-Famous Brands from Ortenau
Ortenau makes its mark worldwide Over one million people visit the Ortenau region each year. But even when they stay in other parts of the world, Ortenau is never far away. The most likely place to encounter Black Forest quality, creativity and design excellence is in the bathrooms and spa areas of the world’s finest hotels.
offer the perfect combination of form and function. Designed by prominent figures such as Antonio Citterio, Jean-Marie Massaud, Patricia Urquiola, and Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Hansgrohe sanitaryware products are renowned worldwide.
The Hornberg-based sanitaryware manufacturer Duravit is one of the world’s leading exponents of designer bathrooms. Philippe Starck, Sir Norman Foster, Massimo Iosa Ghini and James Irvine are just some of the household names that have created designs for Duravit ceramic sanitaryware. Just a few kilometres from Duravit, in Schiltach, the company Hansgrohe produces sanitary fittings that
Equally at home in the world’s finest hotels is the range of cosmetic products from ADA International, including brand collections from prestigious names such as Bvlgari, Chopard, Lalique and Floris. These hotel beauty products add a special touch to exclusive hotels including Steigenberger, Brenners Park Hotel and Badrutt’s Palace.
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