Construction sites
Here you will find the current roadworks and traffic obstructions. This overview only contains road closures with major traffic significance.
The list is updated on an ongoing basis. Unless otherwise indicated, you can get past the roadworks on foot or by bike.
Status: 16.05.2025
Ended lockdowns
Martin-Niemöller-Straße
- Extinguishing attack competition has taken place.
Südbad parking lot can only be used to a limited extent on match day
- Soccer match has been played.
Winzerlaer Straße
- Crane has been set up.
New construction sites / closures
Forest road
- Type: Complete closure
- Location: between house numbers 14 - 25
- Duration: 19.05.2025 to 20.12.2026
- Reason: Replacement construction of the bridge
- Details: The road will only be accessible from both directions up to the bridge. Depending on the construction work, there may also be parking and stopping restrictions. A temporary pedestrian bridge will be built. Until this is completed, pedestrian traffic will be routed alternately over the bridge to be replaced.
Gerbergasse
- Type: Complete closure
- Duration: 19.05. to 28.05.2025
- Reason: Paving work
- Details: The sidewalk along the building Am Anger 15 remains usable. The sidewalks from the direction of Saalbahnhofstraße will be closed. The parking lot and underground car park Am Anger 13/15 and Lutherplatz 3 can be reached via the road on the east side of Am Anger 15. Parking spaces to the west of the construction site and in the inner courtyard at Saalbahnhofstraße 6 cannot be used during the construction period. The parking lot to the south, where construction containers will be set up, will also be inaccessible during the construction period.
Land festivals
- Type: Half-sided closure
- Location: below the railroad bridge
- Duration: 19.05. to 28.05.2025
- Reason: Roadway renovation
- Details: The outbound carriageway in the direction of Camsdorfer Brücke will be closed. Traffic will pass directly next to the closure. The sidewalk on the south side will also be closed. Pedestrians will be directed to the other side of the road at the traffic lights.
Oberaue/ Rasenmühleninsel/ Paradies
- Type: Traffic restrictions
- Duration: 21.05.2025, 18:30 to 20:30
- Reason: 14th Jena company run
Unterm Markt
- Type: Full closure
- Location: Height Müller Drogerie
- Duration: 25.05.2025, 07:00 to 16:00
- Reason: Crane installation
- Details: Pedestrians must bypass the closure via the surrounding streets.
Announcements
None
Existing locks
Old Lobeda
- Type: Temporary closures
- Duration: until 30.06.2025
- Reason: Fiber optic expansion
Federal highway 7
- Type: Half-sided closure
- Location: between the junction with Dorfstraße and the junction with Am Krautgarten
- Duration: until 23.05.2025
- Reason: Fiber optic expansion
- Detail: A mobile traffic light regulates the traffic. The measure will be implemented in several construction phases.
Burgauer Weg
- Type: Complete closure
- Duration: until 15.06.2025
- Reason: Civil engineering works
- Detail: Some parking spaces are closed due to the construction road. The construction road is only open to emergency services, delivery traffic, cyclists and pedestrians. Further information can be found here: www.stadtwerke-jena-netze.de/baustellen or www.stadtwerke-jena.de/dampfabloesung
Carl-Zeiss-Platz
- Type: Complete closure
- Location: House numbers 12 - 14
- Duration: until 29.08.2025
- Reason: Renovation and new construction of the German Optical Museum
Dammstraße
- Type: Complete closure
- Duration: until 30.06.2025
- Reason: Laying of pipes and renewal of the road surface
- Details: A detour will be signposted. The construction work is divided into two construction phases:
1st construction phase: Magnus-Poser-Straße to Schenkstraße
2nd construction phase: Schenkstraße to Charlottenstraße
3x Dornburger Straße
- Type: Half-sided closure + sidewalk closure
- Location: between Nordschule and An der Eule
- Duration: until 31.05.2025
- Reason: Reconstruction of the streetcar catenary system
- Type: Various closures
- Location: House number 6
- Start: 19.06.2024
- Reason: New house construction
- Detail: Until 31.10.2025, a one-way regulation has been set up in the area of Dornburger Straße 6 (half-sided closure, direction of travel into town). The restricted area will be used for loading and unloading and for setting up the construction site. Out-of-town traffic will be diverted via Spitzweidenweg and Nollendorfer Straße.
- Type: Half-side closure
- Location: Nordschule stop
- Duration: until 29.08.2025
- Reason: Reconstruction of the streetcar stop incl. renewal of the road surface
- Details: A one-way street regulation applies into the city. Out of town, the detour is via Camburger Straße/ Scharnhorststraße.
Ernst-Abbe-Platz
- Duration: until 30.05.2025
- Reason: Construction work in the track area
- Details: Crossing facilities for pedestrians will be set up.
Ernst-Thälmann-Straße
- Type: Complete closure
- Location: between house number 1 and Bärengasse
- Duration: until 30.10.2025
- Reason: Line extension
- Details: The measure will be carried out in two construction phases. The access roads "Am Johannisberg" and "Am Alten Schloss" will remain accessible for residents.
Friedrich-Engels-Straße
- Type: Complete closure
- Duration: until 15.09.2025
- Reason: Pipe laying
- Details: In the direction of Ziegenhain, traffic will be diverted via Leo-Sachse-Straße and Haydnstraße. In the direction of the city center, traffic will be diverted via Kernbergstraße and Am Kochersgraben. Both roads are one-way streets during the construction phase.
Grenzstraße
- Type: Complete closure
- Location: Junction with Geraer Straße up to the railroad bridge
- Duration: until 23.05.2025
- Reason: Fundamental road expansion
- Details: A detour will be signposted.
Isserstedter Straße
- Type: Complete closure
- Location: from house number 21 to the junction with Zum Ziskauer Tal
- Duration: The work in the entire district of Lützeroda will last until the end of 2025
- Reason: Fundamental road expansion
- Details: The detour will be signposted.
Church square
- Type: Traffic restrictions
- Location: Around the town church
- Duration: probably until 15.08.2025
- Reason: extensive construction work
- Details: Access to the town church and the stores will be guaranteed during the entire construction period. From 05.05.2025, signs from the direction of Saalstraße and Höhe Oberbank will indicate this separately. Saalstraße will continue to be fully closed to transit/delivery traffic. Leveling work is currently being carried out in front of the town church to prepare the sidewalk and archaeological excavations are progressing behind the town church.
Lessingstrasse
- Type: Complete closure
- Location: between Fröbelstieg and Max-Wien-Platz
- Duration: until 31.12.2025
- Reason: Civil engineering works and construction site transportation
- Details: The construction site can be bypassed via Helmholtzweg.
Löbdergraben
- Type: Closure on one side
- Location: between Paradiesstraße and Ludwig-Weimar-Gasse
- Duration: until 01.08.2025
- Reason: Reconstruction work at the "Löbdergraben" stop
- Details: In the above-mentioned area, a one-way street regulation applies in the direction of Holzmarkt. At the Löbdergraben junction at the level of the Roter Turm, it is only possible to turn right in the direction of Stadtrodaer Straße.
- Replacement stops will be set up in Löbdergraben from 12 to 23.05.2025.
Lützowstraße
- Type: Complete closure
- Location: House number 14 to Mühlenstraße
- Duration: until 31.07.2025
- Reason: Connection of a transformer station
- Details: Traffic will be regulated as a one-way system: The exit from Lichtenhain is via Wildenbruchstraße, the entrance via Ammerbacher Oberweg. The detour route has no weight restrictions and is therefore also open to HGV traffic.
Detour route 1: Lützowstraße
© Verkehrsleittechnik + Service Jahn GmbH & Co. KG
Detour route 2: Lützowstraße
© Verkehrsleittechnik + Service Jahn GmbH & Co. KG
Lutherstraße
- Type: Half-sided closure
- Location: At house number 149
- Duration: until 30.07.2025
- Reason: Civil engineering works + material deposits
- Details: Out of town, the half-sided closure can be bypassed. Inbound traffic will be diverted via Herderstraße / Sickingenstraße. The closure can also be bypassed via Erfurter Straße.
Moritz-von-Rohr-Straße
- Type: Complete closure
- Location: Corner of Lichtenhainer Straße
- Duration: until 25.07.2025
- Reason: District heating installation
- Details: Traffic will be diverted via Carl-Zeiss-Promenade and Lichtenhainer Straße. Resident traffic is permitted up to the construction site.
Mühlenstraße / Lützowstraße
- Type: Complete closure
- Duration: until 30.05.2025
- Reason: Civil engineering works
- Details: The detour leads via Lichtenhainer Oberweg. A mobile traffic light regulates the traffic.
Ritzetal and Berthold-Delbrück-Straße
- Type: Complete closure
- Duration: until 31.12.2025
- Reason: Work on the supply and disposal lines
- Details: The detour is via Am Steinborn and Eugen-Diederich-Straße. Bus traffic will also be diverted via Am Steinborn and Löbichauer Straße.
Semmelweisstrasse
- Type: Closure
- Location: Junction Semmelweis- / Gartenstraße
- Duration: until 23.05.2025
- Reason: Laying of a new district heating pipeline
Schroeterstraße
- Type: Complete closure
- Location: from Strigelstraße to Forstweg
- Duration: until 30.05.2025
- Reason: Fundamental road expansion
- Details: During the construction period there is no connection to Katharinenstraße.
Wiesenstraße, traffic circle
- Duration: until 29.11.2025
- Reason: fundamental redesign
- Details: Access to Kunitz and the adjacent industrial estate is only possible via Brückenstraße, but not via Wiesenstraße. A wide detour is signposted via Am Anger - Dornburger Straße - Camburger Straße. An emergency footpath to Kunitz and in the direction of Naumburger Straße leads past the roadworks.
- Section: between the "Am Steinbach" junction and the construction site of the parallel construction project at the Brückenstraße junction
- Duration: 12.05. to 13.06.2025
- Reason: Asphalt work incl. setting kerbs
- Details: A large part of the work can be carried out with half-side closures, whereby accessibility for residents is guaranteed at all times. The new asphalt surface course will be laid in sections with full road closures in two construction phases. By dividing the construction phases at the level of the wholesale food market, access to the market will be guaranteed throughout the entire construction period. Residents to the south of the construction site can reach their properties via Löbstedter Straße, while properties to the north can be accessed via parts of the new traffic circle on Brückenstraße. Once the renovation work is complete, Wiesenstraße will be reopened to out-of-town traffic in the direction of Kunitz.
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