  We present the archive of the wide-field plate observations obtained at the
University Observatory Jena, which is stored at the Astrophysical Institute of
the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. The archive contains plates taken in
the period February 1963 to December 1982 with the 60/90/180-cm Schmidt
telescope of the university observatory. A computer-readable version of the
plate metadata catalogue (for 1257 plates), the logbooks, as well as the
digitized Schmidt plates in low and high resolution are now accessible to the
astronomical community.This paper describes the properties of the archive, as
well as the processing procedure of all plates in detail.
