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Jena

A cobblestone street lined with historic half-timbered buildings leads to a distant church spire under a sunset sky in Jena, a small university town in Thuringia, central Germany.

Small university town in Thuringia, central Germany, with about six thousand inhabitants when Carl Zeiss opened his instrument workshop there in 1846. The University of Jena had a strong tradition in microscopy reaching back to Goethe's circle, which is what drew Zeiss and later kept Abbe in town despite repeated offers from Berlin. The town remains a centre of optical and laser research.

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