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08/03/2023 | Study

Ara, Caput, Draco, Mons, Pons, Vulpecula Turris Weigeliana Domus. Excursion to Jena

@FB 02 Humanities and Cultural Studies

On 3.6.2023, 22 students of the German Studies Seminar "Romanticism in Jena" (led by Nikola Roßbach) set off from Kassel to get to know the city of Romanticism. And not only the early Romanticism was imagined, fantasized and discussed here in the wild flat-sharing life, but also the beginning of the German Classicism lies in Jena: During a walk over the market place the wonderful friendship of Goethe and Schiller began.

During a guided tour of the city, it became clear that the small Thuringian city is also associated with other big names, from the Reformation (Luther, Melanchthon) to high-tech modernism (founded by the trio Schott, Zeiss, Abbe). Zeiss is also the reason for other superlatives of Jena (the first skyscraper in Germany, the first planetarium in the world).

Our day's program then included a look at the Seven Wonders of Jena: With the Latin saying to it - "Ara, Caput, Draco, Mons, Pons, Vulpecula Turris Weigeliana Domus" - students of earlier times 'proved' that they were actually in Jena.

This was followed by the Romantics' House and Schiller's Garden House. There, in the old arbor in the garden, we did not write "Wallenstein" or invent ballads .... but " satat the old stone table and exchanged many a good and great word with each other" (Goethe 1827 to Eckermann).

A delicious meal at Grünowski with somewhat overworked waiters and a tower climb with a view over Jena for those of us who were free from giddiness rounded off the excursion.

 

Photos (C) Anastasia Daus