Efficiency.areas.Jena
Implementing efficient, resource-conserving and networked land development
Key project 9 - Strategic land management
Approach to action
The city of Jena and its municipal companies are important players on the real estate and land market. In order to be able to pursue a land policy geared towards long-term goals for all city residents, the municipal scope for action must be strengthened and expanded. Strategic municipal land management should serve the sustainable and responsible use of the limited resource of land and take into account not only the economic but also the ecological and social effects.
The concentration of the Friedrich Schiller University on Inselplatz and the University Hospital in Lobeda as well as the redevelopment of the central Eichplatz area offer new possibilities and opportunities in Jena's city center. The inner-city properties and rental properties of the university and the vacant institutes and clinics at the Bachstrasse site, as well as other areas such as Am Steiger, require a strategic approach to the areas that is geared towards long-term goals. The properties will be put to new uses, but also to new owners. The early application of municipal planning sovereignty must be examined in conjunction with the right of first refusal for individual areas enshrined in the German Building Code. In addition, the possibilities of special urban development law, urban land-use planning and urban development contracts should be applied. There is a unique opportunity to acquire inner-city properties and steer sustainable development in favor of different usage requirements and target groups.
Objectives
- Securing the ability to act and influence the real estate market in the long term
- Coordination and management in favor of sustainable and social urban development
- Creating and securing needs-based space offers
Implementation status
- Resolution of the housing policy guidelines and concept allocation for urban housing development areas intended for multi-storey residential construction with at least 15 residential units, with an obligation to create at least 20% rent and occupancy-based housing (20/0482-BV dated 14.10.2020)
- Establishment of the internal administrative working group on strategic land management (since 2020)
- Resolution of the guideline on the criteria-based allocation of municipal owner-occupied properties (22/1740-BV dated 15.12.2022)
- Basic political resolution on the "Jena Building Land Model Housing" (24/2354-BV dated 23.04.2024) to strengthen the strategic acquisition of land and the priority development of municipal residential building land to improve the implementation of socially responsible housing development (concept allocation, owner-occupied housing guideline)
- Establishment of an internal city working group to implement the building land model
- Since 2023, increase in financial resources for acquisition and land development to € 5 million per year in the KIJ business plan
Coordinator
Katja Göbel, Municipal Real Estate Jena
Further information
Key project 10 - Revitalization and densification of significant areas
Approach
The revitalization and densification of existing urban spaces is one of the most important and long-term tasks for the future in Jena. The existing areas and urban spaces are to be developed as potential areas and put to subsequent use. The following areas are of significance to the city as a whole and should be pursued with high priority.
- Eichplatz and Inselplatz are among the central areas of importance to the city of Jena, which will provide important impetus for urban development through redevelopment and new uses (see also key project 11).
- On the former premises of the Schott company, both historic factory buildings and open spaces are underused and unused and could be put to future use. The revitalization of these centrally located areas represents important potential. By using the former track 3 at Jena West station, the Tatzendpromenade/Schott commercial areas will be better connected by bicycle in the future.
- The Saalbahnhof areas are to be developed for other uses. Initial ideas for this have been developed in the framework plan for the northern urban redevelopment area.
- The Jena21 Technology Park is located to the west of the railroad line near Göschwitz station. There are still some areas available here for the further establishment of industry. The Göschwitz railroad station provides access to the technology park.
- The inner-city areas of the university hospital are gradually being vacated, so that a new mixed-use quarter is to be developed on Bachstrasse, among others.
Another important urban space in need of upgrading is along Lobedaer Strasse. Although important urban functions (GalaxSea, Sparkassen-Arena, Burgaupark) are located here, they do not form a functioning urban space with a quality of stay. In the long term, an idea needs to be developed here as to how the urban barriers and the transitions to neighboring urban spaces can be designed.
Objectives
- Resource-saving and efficient use of space
Implementation status
- Completion of new building for Ernst Abbe Library and Citizen Services (March 2024)
- Ongoing construction activities on the Inselplatz campus, the former bulkhead areas (new ZEISS building) and the new dotsource building
- "Bachstrasse Science Campus" urban development concept (currently in progress, public participation April/May 2025)
- Conversion of the TEAG site: preparatory planning measures
Coordinator
Henrik Neumann, Department 3, Urban Planning Division