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Doctors, schools, internet: Radebeul in the German top 10

Köln/Dresden 25. May 2026 16:33 Uhr 3 Min
Doctors, schools, internet: Radebeul in the German top 10
Radebeul is ranked 7th in the "IW Community Check for Services of General Interest" (archive photo) / Photo: Robert Michael/dpa
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We are talking about services for education, health and mobility. Almost every third municipality in Saxony is very well provided for. This is the result of a nationwide ranking.

According to a study, the approximately 33,000 inhabitants of Radebeul are the best provided with doctors, schools, fast internet and many other infrastructure services in Saxony. This is the result of the "IW-Gemeindecheck Daseinsvorsorge" (IW Community Check for Services of General Interest), which was compiled by the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) on behalf of the tobacco company Philip Morris. Nationwide, Radebeul came in seventh place.

According to IW-Gesellschaftsforschung, 17 indicators in the areas of education, health, mobility, digital and leisure were evaluated. It was first reported by the news magazine "Spiegel".

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Markkleeberg came second in Saxony (25th place) - ahead of neighboring Leipzig (28th place) and the state capital Dresden (43rd place). 125 out of a total of 418 Saxon municipalities received a "very good" rating - this corresponds to a share of around 30 percent. This puts the Free State in line with the East German average. This is because 30 percent of eastern German cities are rated as having "very good" services, compared to just under 20 percent of western German cities.

However, Saxony is also represented at the lower end of the ranking of 10,817 municipalities across Germany: Trossin in northern Saxony is ranked 10,458th and Liebstadt in Saxon Switzerland is ranked 10,408th. As in 30 other municipalities in the Free State, the provision of services of general interest there is rated as "very poor".

Bavarian town in first place

The assessment included the provision of daycare facilities and schools, access to freeways, local transport and airports and the accessibility of doctors, pharmacies, care facilities, theaters, museums and swimming pools, as well as mobile phone coverage and broadband availability. The Bavarian town of Haar near Munich came in first place, with Hirschthal in the south-west Palatinate bringing up the rear.

In a comparison of the federal states, North Rhine-Westphalia is in the lead: more than every second NRW municipality falls into the "very good" category - a total of 86% in one of the two top categories "very good" and "good", according to the IW in Cologne. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is at the other end of the scale: There, more than every second municipality is considered to have "very poor" coverage.

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