Jena

Jena is a city in the middle of Germany, in the state of Thuringia. About 103,000 people live there. Jena has a university called Friedrich Schiller University.

Geography

Jena is partly in the middle hall valley between from mixed woodlands covered shelly limestone and sandstone slopes (geological phenomena are among other things the devil holes and the student chute). On them, numerous partially rare Orchideenarten occurs. From north to south Jena is 14.7 kilometres (9.1 miles) wide, and from east to west 12.2 kilometres (7.6 miles). The following larger cities are close to Jena: Gera, approx. 35 kilometres (21.7 miles) east, Erfurt, approx. 40 kilometres (24.9 miles) west, Weimar, approx. 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) west, Naumburg (Saale), approx. 33 kilometres (20.5 miles) northeast, is (Saale), to approx. 70 kilometres (43.5 miles) northeast, Leipzig, approx. 75 kilometres (46.6 miles) northeast and Chemnitz, approx. 94 kilometres (58.4 miles) east, Rudolstadt, approx. 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) south.

View over the city center of Jena

The JenTower in Jena

Lobdeburg near Jena by Night.jpg

Lobdeburg Castle above Lobeda district
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Jena(Merian)
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The battle of Jena in 1806
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Bau 15 of the Carl Zeiss factory, Germany's first high-rise building, established in 1915
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1936 poster marking the 700th anniversary of the city of Jena
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The "Holzmarkt" in the city centre
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The medieval bridge across the Saale in Burgau district
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Population development until 2017
Am Eichplatz. Auf dem Bild sieht man die "Neue Mitte", dahinter ebenfalls ein Wolkenkratzer, das "b59"..jpg

The "Neue Mitte" shopping mall beneath the Jen Tower and the "b59" skyscraper in the background
Das höchste Bürogebäude Ostdeutschlands - der fast 160m hohe Jentower.jpg

The Jen Tower is a symbol of East Germany's economy

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