Lobeda is a former independent city in Thuringia, Germany, which is now a district of Jena known as Lobeda-Old Town.

Between 1966 and 1986, the Jena prefabricated satellite town of Neulobeda was built southwest of Lobeda, with around 20,000 inhabitants.

The heights above Lobeda rise about 220 m above the valley floor, reaching 373 m on Johannisberg and 374 m on Spitzberg, forming the Saale-side edge of the Wöllmisse plateau.

The nearest train station is Jena-Göschwitz (1300 m) with connections in the direction of Erfurt, Halle, Leipzig, Gera and Saalfeld.

Lobeda old town is connected to the surrounding area by public transport with bus lines: Stadtroda-Tälerdörfer-Hermsdorf; Ilmnitz-Bobeck-Hermsdorf and Stadtroda-Neustadt/Orla and Schleiz.

Until 1946, Lobeda belonged to the Stadtroda district, and then permanently to Jena as a suburb of Jena-Lobeda (since 1998 Lobeda-Old Town).

[4] Original Parish Evidence of early settlement comes from finds in the Steinchen field (eastern part of the former castle park) from 1928, which were assigned to the late Bronze Age (around 1000 BC).

The latter is interpreted both as Slavic and as a Frankish facility, which allegedly lost its importance in 937 with the creation of Kirchberg Castle near Jena.

This is indicated by the large territory of this original parish mentioned in a papal document in 1228, which included the subsidiaries Ammerbach, Schlöben, Jägersdorf and Gleina (Schöngleina, the vanished village Gleina near today's Vorwerk Cospoth near Oßmaritz) as well as a chapel Kirchberg and the many rent-paying places scattered over a wide area, such as Rothenstein, which are documented much earlier in some cases.

[10] The Lobdeburgers acted as colonizers in the Eastern Thuringian region and founded the cities of Jena and Lobeda as well as other places and the Roda Monastery.