Lobeda
Lobeda is a former independent city in Thuringia, Germany, which is now a district of Jena known as Lobeda-Old Town.
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.
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Worth seeing in and around Lobeda
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld
The Ernst Abbe Sportfeld is a sports facility in Jena, Germany. The main stadium at the sports facility is the ad hoc arena.
3.1 km · Football Stadium · Wikipedia - 02Trams in Jena
The Jena tramway network is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Jena, a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany. Opened in 1901, the network is currently operated by Jenaer Nahverkehr, and is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Mittelthüringen.
3.2 km · tram system · Wikipedia - 03Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
The Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology is a research institute of the Max Planck Society dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the interactions between humans and the Earth system across deep time. The institute integrates archaeology, anthropology, Earth system science, ecology, and computational modeling to investigate the long-term coevolution of human societies, environments, and technologies.
3.5 km · German research institute · Wikipedia - 04Phyletic Museum
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.
3.9 km · natural history museum in Jena · Wikipedia - 05Johannisberg
Johannisberg is a prominent ridge of the Wöllmisse, a Muschelkalk plateau east of Jena. The steeply sloping spur of land to the Saale Valley north of the district of Alt-Lobeda bears the remains of two important fortifications from the late Bronze Age and the early Middle Ages.
1.1 km · mountain in Jena, Germany · Wikipedia - 06Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
The Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry is located in Jena, Germany. It was created in 1997, and moved into new buildings 2002 on the city's Beutenberg Campus.
3.5 km · research institute · Wikipedia - 07Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology is located on Beutenberg Campus in Jena, Germany. It was founded in March 1996 and is one of 80 institutes of the Max Planck Society.
3.5 km · research institute in Germany · Wikipedia - 08Ernst-Haeckel-Haus
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, also known as Villa Medusa, is a building and an institution of the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the University of Jena in Jena, Germany. The building houses the Chair for the History and Philosophy of Science, as well as the archives of biologist Ernst Haeckel, and a museum.
4 km · building in Jena, Germany · Wikipedia - 09Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology
The Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology is a non-university research facility in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. Focused on applications for various physical systems, the Institute's mandate is to find solutions to challenges in high technology systems.
3.4 km · non-university research facility in Jena, Thuringia, Germany · Wikipedia - 10Sparkassen-Arena, Jena
Sparkassen Arena is an indoor arena in Jena, Germany. It serves as the home arena for Science City Jena of the Basketball Bundesliga.
1.6 km · building in Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lobeda
- Airports
- Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 46 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 73 km · Karlovy Vary (KLV), 120 km
- Stations
- Jena-Göschwitz railway station, 1.5 km · Jena West railway station, 4 km
- Erfurt → Lobeda41 km · quickest by road, 59 min · €5–7
- Schkeuditz → Lobeda70 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · €9–13
- Dresden → Lobeda151 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €17–24
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lobeda
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lobeda. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFor day trips within the state, the Thüringen-Ticket (€35-€67) offers good value for groups, covering all regional transport in Thuringia, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt.
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