diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1317b2e2d..8f5db236c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- `CsvJobDatabase`: workaround GeoPandas issue (on Python>3.9) when there is a column named "crs" ([#714](https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-python-client/issues/714))
+
 
 ## [0.37.0] - 2025-01-21 - "SAP10" release
 
diff --git a/openeo/extra/job_management/__init__.py b/openeo/extra/job_management/__init__.py
index 41b8fdfd3..9e40b09fb 100644
--- a/openeo/extra/job_management/__init__.py
+++ b/openeo/extra/job_management/__init__.py
@@ -904,7 +904,8 @@ def read(self) -> pd.DataFrame:
             import geopandas
 
             # `df.to_csv()` in `persist()` has encoded geometries as WKT, so we decode that here.
-            df = geopandas.GeoDataFrame(df, geometry=geopandas.GeoSeries.from_wkt(df["geometry"]))
+            df.geometry = geopandas.GeoSeries.from_wkt(df["geometry"])
+            df = geopandas.GeoDataFrame(df)
         return df
 
     def persist(self, df: pd.DataFrame):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 68906eccc..3d044bfb5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@
     "urllib3<2.3.0",  # httpretty doesn't work properly with urllib3>=2.3.0. See #700 and https://github.com/gabrielfalcao/HTTPretty/issues/484
     "netCDF4>=1.7.0",
     "matplotlib",  # TODO: eliminate matplotlib as test dependency
-    "geopandas",
+    # TODO #717 Simplify geopandas constraints when Python 3.8 support is dropped
+    "geopandas>=0.14; python_version>='3.9'",
+    "geopandas",  # Best-effort geopandas dependency for Python 3.8
     "flake8>=5.0.0",
     "time_machine",
     "pyproj>=3.2.0",  # Pyproj is an optional, best-effort runtime dependency
diff --git a/tests/extra/job_management/test_job_management.py b/tests/extra/job_management/test_job_management.py
index d88a589a3..46108f0fa 100644
--- a/tests/extra/job_management/test_job_management.py
+++ b/tests/extra/job_management/test_job_management.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import copy
+import datetime
 import json
 import logging
 import re
@@ -7,7 +8,6 @@
 from time import sleep
 from typing import Callable, Union
 from unittest import mock
-import datetime
 
 import dirty_equals
 import geopandas
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 )
 from openeo.rest._testing import OPENEO_BACKEND, DummyBackend, build_capabilities
 from openeo.util import rfc3339
+from openeo.utils.version import ComparableVersion
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
@@ -977,6 +978,30 @@ def test_initialize_from_df_on_exists_skip(self, tmp_path):
         )
         assert set(db.read()["some_number"]) == {1, 2, 3}
 
+    @pytest.mark.skipif(
+        ComparableVersion(geopandas.__version__) < "0.14",
+        reason="This issue has no workaround with geopandas < 0.14 (highest available version on Python 3.8 is 0.13.2)",
+    )
+    def test_read_with_crs_column(self, tmp_path):
+        """
+        Having a column named "crs" can cause obscure error messages when creating a GeoPandas dataframe
+        https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-python-client/issues/714
+        """
+        source_df = pd.DataFrame(
+            {
+                "crs": [1234],
+                "geometry": ["Point(2 3)"],
+            }
+        )
+        path = tmp_path / "jobs.csv"
+        source_df.to_csv(path, index=False)
+        result_df = CsvJobDatabase(path).read()
+        assert isinstance(result_df, geopandas.GeoDataFrame)
+        assert result_df.to_dict(orient="list") == {
+            "crs": [1234],
+            "geometry": [shapely.geometry.Point(2, 3)],
+        }
+
 
 class TestParquetJobDatabase: