After wandering through Erfurt we headed on to our next stop - Jena. While we were driving we saw a large tower on the hill - just the tower in a clearing of green and I was like what is that?? Raymond looked it up and it is a memorial for the victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp (online it says the largest memorial for a concentration camp in Europe - https://www.buchenwald.de/geschichte/historisch… here is more info in German). It’s not very far from our overnight and almost on the way home so we might stop and check it out on Sunday.
Jena was a much bigger city than I expected! And lots of odd sculptures all over!
The Christmas market was small, but there was a small medieval area by the one tower and the main one did have a few things we could eat (though we brought lunch with us so we ate that). There was a nice park along both sides of the water that goes through the town so we ate lunch there and then wandered a bit which was really nice.
There is also Jen Tower we walked by, the tallest that was in East Germany! Most of the floors were a university which was interesting. Then it was time to head on.Read more
December 12, 2025 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C