Translation Services Darmstadt

Alphatrad Darmstadt specialises in professional translation services, certified translations, interpreting and proofreading services, multilingual transcriptions, voice-over services and subtitling. The company belongs to the Optilingua International Group, which has subsidiaries in 12 European countries, and has over 40 years' experience in translation and linguistic services.

Our committed translation network is the only one of its kind in Europe and it caters to 35,000 customers worldwide. The group has global links with 3,500 professional translators specialising in numerous areas of business, and working in the countries in which the relevant languages are specifically spoken. We also provide services in more than a hundred languages in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and Asia, with local translation rates allowing us to offer the most cost-effective service around.

About Darmstadt

Darmstadt is a large city in the south of Hesse. The city belongs to the Rhine-Main area, has about 160,000 inhabitants, and is therefore the fourth largest city in the state of Hesse after Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, and Kassel. The nearest major cities are Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach, about 30 km north, Wiesbaden and Mainz, about 40 km north-west, Mannheim, about 45 km and Heidelberg about 55 km south.

Darmstadt calls itself a city of science. This title was awarded to the city in 1997 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior. It owes this status to a number of universities, colleges, and research institutions, such as the Technical University, founded in 1877, the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and the Protestant University of Applied Sciences with a total of approximately 41,000 students. The more than 30 other research institutions include the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, the European Space Operations Centre (ESA/ESOC), the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the three institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. In addition, there are a number of large companies and institutions in the communications and IT sectors in Darmstadt that conduct applied research and development.

Darmstadt's reputation as a "Centre of Art Nouveau" goes back to the artists' colony established by Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig on Mathildenhöhe in 1899. Darmstadt is home to the football team SV Darmstadt 98.