Neulobeda

Both parts of the so-called new development area border directly on the farmland of the eponymous district Lobeda-Old Town.

Neulobeda was created in several stages from west to east: The first finished residential buildings were in Neulobeda-West along today's Stauffenbergstraße (then Otto-Grotewohl-Straße) and the adjacent Angerstraßen and were ready for occupancy from December 1967.

As a result of the political turnaround in the GDR in 1989, social classes also formed in Jena, whose representatives can be relatively well assigned on the basis of their material wealth.

This changed the demands of the so-called middle class on their living environment (from modern panel apartment to own home with garden) and the residential area went through a self-dynamic downward spiral of image loss and social mixing.

[1] Even higher-level post-reunification phenomena such as increasing excess mortality, loss of population, and mass unemployment, as well as the ensuing individually experienced hopelessness, thwarted the revaluation of Neulobeda for a long time and paved the way for symptoms of decay,[2] specifically for the loss of mutual social control, increasing crime, open extremism, and vandalism.

In 1998, the districts Lobeda-West and Lobeda-East were merged into the village of Neulobeda, with which the previously only colloquial term was officially used for the first time.

To improve the living situation in the district, numerous apartments and areas were modernized from the federal-state program The Social City.

The lowering was stabilized on the slope side by large natural stone blocks, a green space of about 7 hectares was created above the almost 600-meter-long housing.