Former penitentiary at the Holzweiher
The former penal institution at the Holzweiher was a branch of the Nuremberg penal institution and is located in the non-parish area of Forsthof in the central Franconian district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria .
location
The site is located in the Lorenzer Reichswald east of Nuremberg , about halfway between the Nuremberg districts of Zerzabelshof and Fischbach . The wooden pond is at the southern entrance. The northern part is in the community-free area of the Zerzabelshofer Forest . The former penal institution is part of the EU bird sanctuary Nuremberg Reichswald .
history
The area was radically cleared for the first time between 1100 and 1300 to meet the needs of the up-and-coming city of Nuremberg for firewood and construction. In the 14th century desertification threatened and in the 15th century it was reforested with pine monocultures . The barren, sandy soils were completely unattractive for agriculture, but the forests were able to re-establish themselves on the groundwater bed of the Fischbach . It stayed with the forestry use, there was also a little beekeeping . During the First World War , the Russenwiese prisoner-of-war camp was built 500 m to the west , which was later operated as a labor education camp during the Nazi era . During the night air raids on 10/11. and 27./28. August 1943, which actually applied to the marshalling yard located five kilometers to the west, the camp was hit and then abandoned. The corridors adjoining to the east were also completely devastated by incorrect drops and forest fires. In addition, in the further course of the war there were debris from shot down machines, as the area was exactly halfway between the Fischbach and Dutzendteich flak positions and it initially remained a wasteland in the post-war period .
Only when the Nuremberg judicial facilities were handed over to the German authorities again in 1952 and the core city had been freed from the worst of the war debris did the Reichswald begin to clean up. As an outpost of the prison, the area was fenced in and partly reforested. The Fischbach was dammed up into a wooden pond and the bomb craters in the north of the Hutgraben were expanded into a chain of ponds. The facilities at Brunner Weg / Holzweiher were not communicated to the public and were largely ignored. In October 1967 there was an armed robbery at the site in which a vehicle was robbed.
description
The branch was in operation until the early 1970s. The prisoners worked there during the day and were returned to their cells in the evening. Agricultural land, a tree nursery , animal breeding and some ponds with fish were created. Today the area is used by the Bavarian State Forests . There are some agricultural buildings, a farm building and ponds on the site. The ponds are breeding and resting places for rare water birds. In 2017, an information board was set up by the Bavarian State Forests at the entrance.
The site is still completely fenced in, locked and cannot be entered.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Location of the former prison in the Bavaria Atlas (accessed on October 30, 2017).
- ↑ www.protectedplanet.net, Nürnberger Reichswald (accessed October 30, 2017)
- ↑ 6533-471 Nuremberg Reichswald. (EU bird sanctuary) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved November 27, 2017.
- ↑ Location on the historical map at BayernAtlas Klassik
- ↑ Car robbery on Brunner Weg
- ↑ Information board of the Bavarian State Forests on site (see pictures on Commons)
- ^ Bavarian State Forests, Nature Conservation Concept Nuremberg (accessed October 30, 2017)
- ^ Bavarian State Forests, Monuments in the Nuremberg Reichswald (accessed on October 30, 2017)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 11 ° 9 ′ 16.5 ″ E