Dargun is a small town with 1,000 years of history, located in Mecklenburg Switzerland with its numerous hilltops created by the last ice age and lakes in between.

As early as 1172, Danish Cistercian monks laid the foundation stone of the Dargun monastery, which was newly founded in 1209 by German fellow believers. After the Reformation, the monastery was converted into a castle in 1556, which fell victim to a devastating fire at the end of the Second World War. What remains is a monastery ruin that is worth seeing today. The town of Dargun has around 5,000 inhabitants and can be reached via the B 110 federal road (former royal and trade route "Via Regia").

The company EcoNautic Systems GmbH emerged from the former Darguner Getriebe- und Zahnradwerk GmbH (DAGEZA), which in GDR times as the manufacturing facility VEB Maschinenbau Dargun belonged to the VEB Kombinat Progress Landmaschinen, Betriebsstätte Güstrow. The company was founded in 1943 as a wood-processing craft business . In 1946 the company expanded its field of activity and began servicing agricultural machinery and later in 1948 the production of spare parts and small agricultural machinery.

Since 1966, the company had specialized exclusively in the production of gearboxes and gearbox parts. The clients were the former combines of agricultural machinery construction. From the mid-1980s, production was expanded as a supplier for the automotive industry in Zwickau (Trabant) and Eisenach (Wartburg). For these partners, VEB Maschinenbau Dargun was the only manufacturer of axle drives with a volume of around 300,000 units per year.



After reunification, the company at that time was renamed DAGEZA in mid-1990. In 1994 the purchase was made by two Danish businessmen, who thus secured the economic existence of a small group of employees in Dargun. Some of them still work in the company today.

So after 822 years the Danes returned to Dargun.