A particluar focus and economic factor next to the general trade forms the cure system with its natural medicinal springs as well as the health service, the tourism with the worth seeing gardens and the Hainich nationalpark.

The combination of these different fields are especially used by the cure visitors, to whom the city offers the possibilities of regeneration, prevention and treatment.

The great number of the enterprises in and around the health branch led to increased accretion of successful companies.