The town of Boizenburg/Elbe has a connection to the Hamburg-Berlin railway line and an inland port. The town supports projects in its industrial estates with a very proactive settlement policy that offers favourable plots of land, from location to price. The layout of the sites is always agreed with the purchaser. Whether roads, electricity, water, sewage or natural gas: the city, in cooperation with the utilities, offers investors the necessary parameters that are technologically required by the company. In Boizenburg/Elbe it is shown that the UNESCO biosphere reserve "Flusslandschaft Elbe" and the economy are not contradictory. The nature park plan provides a guiding principle for the sustainable safeguarding and development of the economic and social space of the nature park area. Boizenburg sees itself as a clean and safe town embedded in the Mecklenburg Elbe Valley Nature Park. The goal of making Boizenburg liveable by creating jobs determines the actions of politics and administration. To this end, the municipal economic development department secures and develops Boizenburg/Elbe as a business location. Boizenburg/Elbe offers all types of schools, such as primary, secondary and grammar schools. Day-care centres with different facilities provide pre-school care for children. A varied club life promotes sport and culture. A cinema, which also acts as a small cultural centre, is an enrichment of the otherwise rural region. With regard to medical care, in addition to the doctors in private practice, the Boizenburg hospital provides basic and standard care with an excellent professional reputation in the region and beyond. The hospital has developed into a centre of modern medical care close to home for its patients from Boizenburg and the surrounding area. For more information on the town of Boizenburg/Elbe, which has a population of over 10,000, go to http://www.boizenburg.de.