Modernization measures on the rail infrastructure and supply lines

Modified streetcar network and rail replacement services during the 2024 summer vacations

At the start of, during and after this year's summer vacations, Jena's public transport system is pursuing important construction projects to modernize the rail infrastructure and upgrade the network for light rail operations. These measures are essential for sustainable and reliable local public transport, which ultimately benefits all passengers. At the same time, Stadtwerke Jena Netze is renewing supply lines. With the start of the vacations from Thursday, 20.06.2024, this work will result in a modified streetcar network and rail replacement services in Jena. Passengers of JES Verkehrsgesellschaft will also have to adjust to a longer detour route for bus route 410 due to construction work.

Important measures and construction projects:

1. extension of bus route 15

Bus route 15 will be supplemented by a total of three pairs of trips daily in the late-night service. In future, buses will also run hourly between Rautal and Westbahnhof after 21:00. This measure is initially designed as a pilot project for 18 months and will be evaluated after 12 months.

2. construction work at Ernst-Abbe-Platz (EAP)

• Period: 20.06. until probably the end of the year
• Reasons: Worn track systems, points, overhead lines and road control will be renewed.
• Restrictions: Parts of the EAP will be closed. Pedestrian passages remain usable. Car and truck traffic is only possible via the passage to Krautgasse.

Endhaltestelle Ernst-Abbe-Platz

© Jenaer Nahverkehr; Frank Schein

3. renewal of gas and water pipes in Kahlaische Straße

• Period: 20.06. to 31.07.2024
• Reasons: Gas replacement program: precautionary replacement of existing, poorly insulated steel pipes with stainless plastic pipes; renewal of drinking water pipe
• Restrictions: Full closure of Kahlaische Straße in the area between house no. 66 to no. 68 and house no. 46 to the Beutenbergstraße junction. Detour of car traffic via Stadtrodaer Straße and Winzerlaer Straße.

4. track and overhead line work in Naumburger Straße

• Period: October 2023 to 31.07.2024. Remaining work until fall 2024.
• Current status: New overhead line masts have been installed, media lines replaced, track laid from 19.07.2024. Commissioning of new rectifier substation at the end of July.

5. renewal of the overhead line at Nordschule/Altenburger Straße

• Period: 20.06.24 until probably Easter 2025.
• Measures: 13 catenary masts will be erected during the summer vacation. A further 20 masts will be installed by the end of the year. The new contact wire will be installed during the Easter vacations 2025.

Changes to the streetcar network and rail replacement services in Jena:

Streetcarline 1: Lobeda-West - Göschwitz - Holzmarkt city center

Streetcarline 4: Lobeda-West - Lobeda - Holzmarkt town center

Streetcarline 5: Lobeda-Ost - Lobeda - city center Löbdergraben - Nordschule

The Ernst-Abbe-Platz stop is not served.

Rail replacement service line E: Zwätzen - Nordschule (night service to/from Holzmarkt town center)

The rail replacement service serves all (replacement) streetcar stops and departs from a temporary platform on the approach to the depot at Nordschule. The bus route 42 between Himmelreich and Zwätzen is integrated into the rail replacement service. The Stifterstraße stop will not be served.

Streetcarline 2: Jena-Ost - city center Löbdergraben - Felsenkeller

Streetcarline 3: Lobeda-Ost - Lobeda-West - Burgaupark - Winzerla - Ringwiese

There is no service between the Felsenkeller and Ringwiese stops. Passengers traveling between Winzerla and the city center should use bus lines 10 and 12 as well as the transfer option at Burgaupark between streetcar lines 1, 4 and 5 and streetcar line 3.

Changes to bus route 410:

Due to a full closure of the B7 between the municipalities of Trotz and Droschka, buses on line 410 will run along a detour route: from Thursday, June 20, 2024 until the end of the summer vacations, the line will start earlier from the first stop in Jena, as well as in the opposite direction from Eisenberg, in order to reach all connections to buses and trains at the respective line end point.

The local community of Droschka cannot be served during this time due to a lack of turning facilities within the village. The buses will turn at the "Bürgel, Wendeschleife" stop and will be diverted in both directions via Hohendorf without stopping.

At weekends, route 410 will be operated with a partially modified timetable.

Information for passengers

All information on the current timetables can be found in the MeinJena app, on the website http://www.stadtwerke-jena.de/nahverkehr(link is external) and at the stops.