All entries located in Brandenburg (Germany), newest first. tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:en:en/regions/brandenburg 2026-08-01T06:00:00Z Eurotrack tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:91812018:en 2026-08-01T06:00:00Z

Large-scale bakery Wahl of Bestensee has filed for insolvency under self-administration, citing rising costs and consumer restraint; around 400 employees across more than 50 outlets in Berlin and Brandenburg are affected, over 70 of them at the production site. Several outlets (including Mittenwalde, Zossen and Schmöckwitz) already closed on 1 August 2026, while the Bestensee production site is to keep running for now. The self-administration is supervised by lawyer Jörg Franzke. — Source: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/mehrere-filialen-in-berlin-und-brandenburg-schliessen-backereikette-wahl-meldet-insolvenz-an-15905668.html

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:e18a2a5d:en 2026-07-19T06:00:00Z

According to the annual report of Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg SE for 2025, published on 19 July 2026, Tesla plans around 3,500 new jobs at Grünheide and a long-term increase to up to 7,500 vehicles per week (around 375,000 per year; 2025: approx. 202,000 vehicles with around 11,000 employees). Battery cell production is also to be expanded to integrate the value chain from cell to finished vehicle at the site; the plant is set to supply more than 30 markets in future. Tesla makes the expansion conditional on economic developments and points to geopolitical risks for European battery manufacturing. — Source: https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/aktuelles/wirtschaft/id_101350408/tesla-gruenheide-3500-neue-jobs-geplant-produktion-waechst.html

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:6b2fc5dc:en 2026-07-06T06:00:00Z

DB is extending its ICE maintenance depot in Cottbus with Hall 1, over 500 m long (ground-breaking March 2024); at full capacity it creates 1,200 additional industrial and training jobs, and about 700 people work at the depot today. The hall triples overhaul capacity for the ICE 4, and heavy IS 700 maintenance there is to take about three weeks, roughly half the time at other sites. Structural completion is planned for the end of 2026 and the first train is due in February 2027. At the eighth meeting of the task force on 6 July 2026 the schedule was reported as on track; double-tracking of Lübbenau–Cottbus is due to start in December 2026. (LOK Report, 6 Jul 2026; second source: Deutsche Bahn, 6 Jul 2026) — Sources: https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/aus-den-laendern/brandenburg-task-force-bahnstandort-cottbus-kommt-zum-achten-mal-zusammen.html · https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/aus-den-laendern/65438-brandenburg-wartung-von-ice-4-ab-februar-2027-in-cottbus.html · https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/aus-den-laendern/64328-brandenburg-helikopter-setzt-am-12-januar-oberleitungsmasten-am-hauptbahnhof-zum-projekt-neues-werk-cottbus.html · https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/presse-regional/pr-berlin-de/aktuell/presseinformationen/Endspurt-beim-groessten-ICE-Instandhaltungswerk-der-DB-Halle-1-nimmt-Anfang-2027-Betrieb-auf-Task-Force-sieht-weitere-Staerkung-der-Lausitz--13963390

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:183578a6:en 2026-06-30T06:00:00Z

VTG will shut down its maintenance plant for intermodal freight wagons in Großräschen on 31 December 2026; employees at the site were told in person at an internal event, and the report does not give their number. The plant was planned during a period of strong demand in intermodal transport and only began operating in 2024, but expected utilisation and economic prospects did not materialise to the required extent as market conditions changed. Maintenance of VTG's wagon fleet is to be handled through the group's European workshop network and external partners (LOK Report, 30 Jun 2026). — Source: https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/industrie/vtg-instandhaltungswerk-in-grossraeschen-wird-zum-jahresende-2026-geschlossen.html

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:7cd359b1:en 2026-06-05T06:00:00Z

On 5 June 2026 Stadler opened Hall 1 of its new commissioning centre in Hennigsdorf, north of Berlin, where trains can be tested under the grid voltage of their future country of use before handover to customers (multi-voltage supply, an in-hall overhead line for the first time in a Stadler plant in Germany). The project costs about EUR 40 million and is to create 128 jobs; it consolidates activities from the existing Velten site and serves the Berlin-Pankow plant. The hall is stage two of five on the site of about 46,000 m² bought in 2023; the remaining three run until 2027 and include two refurbished existing halls and a 744 m outdoor test track (LOK Report, 5 Jun 2026). Update (5 June 2026): Stadler has inaugurated Hall 1 of its customer acceptance centre in Hennigsdorf, where 128 staff are due to work; the remaining construction stages run until 2027. (LOK Report, 5 June 2026) — Source: https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/industrie/stadler-kundenabnahmezentrum-in-hennigsdorf-eroeffnet.html

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:849d2b11:en 2026-04-09T06:00:00Z

GBM Gleisbaumechanik Brandenburg has bought a neighbouring site of about 15,000 m² at the Kirchmöser rail location in Brandenburg an der Havel, which includes two workshop halls with a combined floor area of over 3,600 m². The company, which modernises, builds and services rail vehicles, plans to expand service and storage capacity there, streamline processes and hire additional skilled staff, without giving a number; it currently has about 220 employees. The investment amount is not disclosed (LOK Report, 9 Apr 2026). — Source: https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/industrie/gbm-gleisbaumechanik-brandenburg-zusaetzliches-grundstueck-am-standort-kirchmoeser.html

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:8c6d2d70:en 2026-01-27T06:00:00Z

Tesla Gigafactory Grünheide: the number of employees fell from 12,415 (works council election 2024) to 10,703 (currently) = ~14% decline. This corresponds to ~1,700 jobs lost, well above Elon Musk's original announcement (April 2024: ~400 jobs for Grünheide). Musk had wanted to cut >10% worldwide; for Grünheide there were allegedly no mass layoffs planned, only the termination of temporary workers (300) plus voluntary programmes (400). Plant management insisted until the very end that there were no plans for a production halt or staff cuts, despite a 50% drop in new Tesla registrations in Germany (Jan-Sept 2025 vs. the prior year). — Source: https://www.msn.com/de-de/finanzen/top-stories/stellenabbau-bei-tesla-in-gr%C3%BCnheide-1700-mitarbeiter-offenbar-gefeuert/ar-AA1UK4n0

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:97aba6c6:en 2026-01-21T06:00:00Z

Bosch-Siemens-Hausgeräte (BSH) is closing its production sites in Nauen and Bretten by the first quarter of 2028. Reason: under changed economic conditions they are no longer competitive or viable for the future. CEO Matthias Metz: 'After a comprehensive review, we had to conclude that the sites are no longer viable for the future.' The remaining sites in Dillingen, Giengen, Traunreut, Bad Neustadt as well as the Munich headquarters and the development and logistics centers will remain. The closures are to be absorbed by the European manufacturing network. Challenges: geopolitics, weak real estate markets, unsettled consumers, aggressive pricing from Chinese competition. — Source: https://halleon.de/2026/01/21/bosch-siemens-hausgeraete-plant-nach-schliessungen-in-nauen-und-bretten-keine-weiteren-werksschliessungen-in-deutschland/

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:6a1c4583:en 2025-10-30T06:00:00Z

On 30 October 2025 DB took over LEAG's recently modernised training workshop in Jänschwalde, part of a cooperation agreed in 2020 between the two groups to support structural change in Lusatia. More than 300 apprentices train there, rising to 310 in 2026 and 350 for the 2027 intake, and they are meant to work at the Cottbus ICE depot among other places. At more than 5,700 m² it is the largest training workshop in the region, and apprentices from other Lusatian firms train there too. (LOK Report, 30 Oct 2025) Update (30 October 2025): Deutsche Bahn has formally taken over LEAG's training workshop in Jänschwalde. (LOK Report, 30 October 2025) — Source: https://www.lok-report.de/news/deutschland/aus-den-laendern/62658-brandenburg-bahn-uebernimmt-ausbildungswerkstatt-in-jaenschwalde.html

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:7ceece6b:en 2023-09-21T06:00:00Z

As part of the Berlin–Dresden line upgrade (ABS Berlin-Dresden, phase 1), Wünsdorf-Waldstadt station was rebuilt between 2020 and 2023: the outer platforms were widened to 4 metres, a level crossing was replaced with a pedestrian/cycle underpass (completed November 2021), and a new electronic signal box (ESTW) was installed. Deutsche Bahn and the city of Zossen celebrated the reopening of the now barrier-free station on 21 September 2023 — the list's stated date of 2022-10-31 is not supported by the sources (only platforms 1 and 2 were finished in 2022). — Source: https://www.berlin-dresden.de/include-elemente/tab-abs/bhf-wuensdorf-waldstadt.html

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:c1b50e2d:en 2020-11-08T06:00:00Z

Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) in Schönefeld, south of Berlin, opened on 31 October 2020 after roughly 13 years of delay, with total costs of about EUR 7.3 billion. Following the last flight out of Tegel on 8 November 2020, Berlin's air traffic was fully consolidated at BER. Capacity stands at around 36 million passengers per year (Terminals 1 and 2 combined), with the runways theoretically supporting over 50 million. — Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flughafen_Berlin_Brandenburg

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:cbd2af02:en 2020-04-30T06:00:00Z

Deutsche Bahn fundamentally rebuilt Cottbus main station between 2016 and 2020: all seven platforms were reconstructed step-free with elevators, with platform 1 the final section to open in spring 2020. A new, extended pedestrian tunnel now links the northern city centre directly to the platforms and station building. Deutsche Bahn, the state of Brandenburg and the city of Cottbus jointly invested around EUR 30 million in the project. — Source: https://niederlausitz-aktuell.de/cottbus/82515/millionenprojekt-der-bahn-hauptbahnhof-cottbus-fertig-erneuert.html

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:94933c74:en 2019-12-15T06:00:00Z

Deutsche Bahn modernized the Ruhland rail junction (Brandenburg, Lusatia) between 2016 and the end of 2019 across nine construction phases: tracks, bridges, and signalling/safety technology were renewed and a new electronic interlocking installed, while the station itself was rebuilt to be barrier-free (new pedestrian tunnel, elevators, renewed platforms). The Ruhland-Hosena line closure ran from January to September 2016; the station rebuild and interlocking commissioning were completed by autumn 2018, with remaining work (e.g. freight-yard lighting) continuing into November 2019. Investment volume: approx. EUR 70 million, largely funded through the Performance and Financing Agreement (LuFV). — Source: https://www.zughalt.de/2016/01/modernisierung-im-knoten-ruhland/