New information board inaugurated on Jägerberg

Anyone walking around Jena on the SaaleHorizontale (SH) quality hiking trail will pass Jägerberg between Porstendorf and Closewitz. One of the first display boards of natura jenensis, the nature experience region currently being created around Jena, now awaits visitors there. The new design of the natura jenensis boards has its origins in the long-established and flowing forms of the SaaleHorizontale logo. The waves stand for the course of the Saale valley with its surrounding shell limestone cliffs, which characterize the region and its quality hiking trail and make it special. With the exposed upper wave and the peeled robinia tree trunks as panel supports, all natura jenensis station panels will be easily recognizable in the future. Next year, in addition to the new SH hiking boards, the city forestry department is planning three new adventure trails with numerous station boards, all of which will have the same natura jenensis design.

The "trailblazer" board on the Jägerberg provides clear and concise information about the local nature and the history of the mountain. The focus here is on the formative military use in the last century. Three pupils from the Christliches Gymnasium (Christian grammar school) tackled this topic as part of their seminar paper. Their research forms the basis for the content of the plaque. Jenaer rooom AG and Stadtforst are responsible for the design and layout. The station was inaugurated on Thursday, 11.11.21 with all those involved.

This board was financed by the 2020 citizens' budget with a sum of €1,800. In the vote on the citizens' budget, in which all residents of Jena aged 16 and over were able to participate, the school project received 520 votes, putting it in third place out of a total of 21 valid proposals. Additional funds were contributed by Kommunalservice Jena from the budget for the maintenance of hiking trails in Jena.

"The commitment of the pupils at the Christian grammar school deserves special recognition at this point. They went above and beyond the compulsory task of the seminar paper by helping to design the information board and submitting the proposal to the citizens' budget. And to finish in third place is a well-deserved crowning achievement. Congratulations," says Christian Gerlitz, Mayor and Head of the Department for Urban Development and the Environment.