At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a large number of events containing Z bosons will be available and the calibration of the absolute jet energy scale with these events becomes feasible for the first time. Such a calibration is important as the uncertainty on this observable will be the dominant systematical uncertainty on most LHC analyses. This work demonstrates the feasibility of such a calibration within the CMS experiment through a comparison of the momentum of a jet with the precisely reconstructed momentum of a Z boson decaying into two muons. The four LHC experiments will produce...