Self-Guided Walking Tours in Jena

Jena Walking Tour: Where a Wooden Head Snaps at a Golden Ball and Schiller Wrote Wallenstein

This walking tour of Jena takes you through seven stops and about two and a half kilometres, from the market square to Schiller's garden house, in about 40 minutes. You will hear about an elector who lost a battle and then founded a university, about Luther's grave plate, about the oldest planetarium in the world that is still running, and about Ernst Abbe, who handed the Carl Zeiss company to a foundation. On June 17, 1953, thousands of people gathered at the Holzmarkt, where the trams stop, against the SED government; the next day a Soviet military court in Weimar sentenced the Jena fitter Alfred Diener to death, and he was shot the same day. The walk starts at the statue on the market square, about three minutes on foot from the Holzmarkt and seven minutes from Jena Paradies station.

Walking·40 min·7 stops·2.5 km