Private tour in Jena Sabine W
Includes all fees
Book with a 20% deposit
up to 10 people
2 hours 30 minutes
walking
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Jena, known around the globe for its optical industry, is much more than the Zeiss- and Schott Company. Beautifully situated in the Saale-Valley, the city offers a variety of possibilities such as hiking in the surrounding hills. Let me invite you for a stroll through the city including the viewing area of the JenTower where you can follow the development of the optical industry. Follow me then to partly more than 500 years old buildings! There, I will explain you the connection between the development of Christian Faith, triggered by the reformer Martin Luther, and the local university. At other historical places, you will understand why Jena was called "the global capital of philosophy" around 1800 with the philosophers Fichte, Hegel and Schelling lecturing there. See the venues where the polymath J. W. von Goethe and his best friend the philosopher and poet Friedrich von Schiller interchanged their genius thoughts. Ask for a customized tour: In the footsteps of Andrea Wulf's "Magnificent Rebels"!
Beginning: in front of St. Michael's Church. You will see: - Germany's first "skyscraper" (from 1915) - Henry van de Velde's "Ernst-Abbe-Memorial" (with Max Klinger's Herm) - the garden of Schiller's Garden Cottage (depending on the opening hours) - the old monastery from the 13th century (foundation of the university) - the market square (with one of the oldest town halls in Germany) - house of the philosopher Fichte from the outside (today Museum of Early Romanticism in Jena) - St. Michael's Church - town church (with the original gravestone of Martin Luther and the pulpit where he stood) - the main building of the university (with its beautiful courtyard) - the oldest still working planetarium with star projector in the world - Lady's quater (Art Nouveau buildings) - Frommannsches Anwesen (beautifully renovated convivial place from around 1800) - the medieval town fortification and the viewing area of the JenTower The end of the tour is your hotel or a place of your convenience.
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It is a walking tour.
Jena, Thuringia, 07 Germany
We can meet at your hotel in the city centre, at the church of St. Michael or at the station
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Includes all fees
Book with a 20% deposit
Size:
up to 10 people
Duration:
2 hours 30 minutes
Transportation:
walking
1
Includes all fees
Book with a 20% deposit
Size:
up to 10 people
Duration:
2 hours 30 minutes
Transportation:
walking
1
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