Jena
Jena is a locality in Jena, Thuringia and has about 105,000 residents. Jena is situated nearby to the suburb Lichtenhain, as well as near the locality Sophienhöhe.Places of Interest
Highlights include Zeiss-Planetarium Jena and Jena Phyletisches Museum.
Zeiss-Planetarium Jena
Planetarium
Photo: Selby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Zeiss-Planetarium in Jena, Germany, is the oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world. Engineered by German engineer Walther Bauersfeld, the building was opened on 18 July 1926.
Jena Phyletisches Museum
Museum
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Jena Phyletisches Museum is a museum in the German town of Jena. It was established by the scientist Ernst Haeckel, as an institute dedicated to explaining evolution to the public.
Botanical Garden
Garden
Photo: Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Botanischer Garten Jena is the second oldest botanical garden in Germany, maintained by the University of Jena and located at Fürstengraben 26, Jena, Thuringia, Germany.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Neulobeda and Lobeda.
Neulobeda
Suburb
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Neulobeda is the largest district of the Thuringian university town Jena with over 22,000 residents. The residents are distributed over an area of 3.6 km. Neulobeda is situated 5 km south of Jena.
Lobeda
Suburb
Photo: Oglobeda, Public domain.
Lobeda is a former independent city in Thuringia, Germany, which is now a district of Jena known as Lobeda-Old Town. It was incorporated in 1946, has just under 2000 inhabitants on an area of 3.36 square kilometers and is located just under 4.5 kilometers south of the city center. Lobeda is situated 4 km south of Jena.
Lehesten
Village
Photo: Michael Sander, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lehesten is a municipality in the district Saale-Holzland, in Thuringia, Germany. Lehesten is situated 6 km north of Jena.
Jena
- Type: Locality with 105,000 residents
- Also known as: “Jena (Thueringen)”
- Location: Jena, Thuringia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Jena” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يينا”
- Bashkir: “Йена”
- Belarusian: “Іена”
- Bishnupriya: “জেনা”
- Bulgarian: “Йена”
- Catalan: “Jena”
- Chinese: “耶拿”
- Czech: “Jena”
- Danish: “Jena”
- Dutch: “Jena”
- Esperanto: “Jena”
- Estonian: “Jena”
- Finnish: “Jena”
- French: “Iéna”
- Georgian: “იენა”
- German: “Jena”
- Greek: “Ιένα”
- Hebrew: “יינה”
- Hindi: “जेना”
- Hungarian: “Jéna”
- Indonesian: “Jena”
- Italian: “Jena”
- Japanese: “イェーナ”
- Kazakh: “Йена”
- Korean: “예나”
- Latin: “Iena”
- Latvian: “Jēna”
- Lithuanian: “Jėna”
- Macedonian: “Јена”
- Newari: “जेना”
- Norwegian: “Jena”
- Persian: “ینا”
- Polish: “Jena”
- Portuguese: “Jena”
- Romanian: “Jena”
- Russian: “Йена”
- Serbian: “Јена”
- Spanish: “Jena”
- Swedish: “Jena”
- Turkish: “Jena”
- Ukrainian: “Єна”
- Vietnamese: “Jena”
- Western Panjabi: “جینا”
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Highlights include Markt - Jena and Thuringian University and State Library.
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