Doftana prison
The doftana prison is located in the Prahova County in Romania and was built 1895th During the 1930s there were also political prisoners there, including communists such as Nicolae Ceaușescu , Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Chivu Stoica , who would later occupy central positions in the Socialist Republic of Romania . The later Methodist pastor Richard Wurmbrand was an inmate there as a PCR member and communist, and the Transylvanian-Saxon politician Rudolf Brandsch died there in 1953. But fascists such as Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and Horia Sima were also imprisoned there.
Doftana is located a few kilometers from the town of Câmpina and was named after the Doftana river . The prison was converted into a museum after 1945, in which the imprisonment of the communist founders was commemorated. After the revolution of 1989 , during which the former Doftana inmate and Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was shot dead, the museum fell into disrepair. Today the Doftana prison is used as a paintball venue.
Web links
- Paintball Arena - current user of Doftana prison (Romanian)
Coordinates: 45 ° 8 ′ 11.7 ″ N , 25 ° 46 ′ 22.1 ″ E