Collegium Jenense

Southwest of the Markt can be found the Collegium Jenense, originally a Dominican monastery, which housed the "First University" of Jena for some three hundred years until its move to the Goetheallee. An interesting feature is the students' prison (Karzer), with inscriptions and drawings by the students confined there. Among those who taught here were the philosophers Hegel, Fichte and Schelling.