Aichach correctional facility

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Aichach correctional facility
JVA Aichach
Information about the institution
Surname Aichach correctional facility
Reference year 1909
Detention places 563

The prison Aichach is a correctional facility for male and female prisoners of the Free State of Bavaria in Aichach , Bavarian Swabia .

General

The prison for female prisoners currently has a capacity of 433 prison places in the regular prison system and six prison places in the open prison system . There are 124 places available for male prisoners.

The institution has a women's sick department which is also used for the health care of other prisons . There is also a mother and child section with ten detention places.

history

The institute was built from 1904 to 1908 and started operating in January 1909 as a prison for female Catholic prisoners.

In 1935 the workhouse for women was moved to Aichach. After the women's prison in Rothenfeld was abolished in 1966, the prisoners there were also transferred to Aichach.

During the Nazi era, there were numerous political prisoners among the women imprisoned. Forced sterilizations were also carried out in at least 110 cases. From the beginning of 1943, 362 women were deported from Aichach to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where typhus raged at the time . For this reason alone, the mortality was very high. None of the women returned from there. Even after 1945, nothing more was known about their fate.

The files of the Aichacher Anstalt from this and earlier times are kept in the Bavarian State Archives in Munich. They document growing marginalization and repression already during the Weimar Republic and numerous murders after 1933.

construction

The correctional facility consists of a smaller men's house and a relatively large women's section, which is divided into four wings (A – D). Each wing consists of three floors. In department B there is an access department next to the youth department, from which new inmates are distributed to the remaining wings. Department C has access to most of the workplaces that manufacture, among other things, circuit boards for industrial operations, plastic parts for the automotive industry (by Hörauf and Kohler), and much more. In addition, the prisoners' shopping facilities are also located on wing C. Department D has access to the sick department and the mother-child department. Wing D also houses the security department on the first floor. Wing A contains the access to the administration and the in-house bakery as well as the large kitchen, as well as work therapy for prisoners who are unable to be integrated into the “normal” work operations.

Institution management

The head of the institute is Government Director Konrad Meier, who succeeded Executive Director Wolfgang Deuschl at the end of February 2008.

Structure of the individual departments

There are around 16 to 20 cells on each floor, one or two of which can be occupied by up to four people and the rest by up to two people. On each floor of the wings mentioned above there is a kitchen which the prisoners can use during their free time to prepare their own meals. Furthermore, it is possible for the prisoners to clean their private laundry independently, since a washing machine is also available on every floor.

Cells

Each one or two person cell is about eight square meters and has a toilet and a wash basin, but there are also four and six person cells. In addition, it is possible for the prisoners to rent or bring a television set. However, devices that you have brought with you must be handed in to an electrical company specified by the institution beforehand. He checks or seals the TV set and then delivers it to the prison. The television program is fed into the cells without teletext, as messages to prisoners could reach the prison without being checked via teletext and chat pages. Wing A has a handicapped accessible cell.

church

There is a spacious church on the site where Catholic and Protestant services are held regularly.

Monument protection

The building complex is a monument .

The description reads:

“Münchener Straße 33. Aichach correctional facility, built in 1904/08 in an objectified, slightly Baroque style; four panoptic wings arranged in a cross around an octagonal central hall, completed by wall sections and further wings (work building A and B, farm building, school, men's house, two-winged asylum church) to form a six-yard rectangular complex, from which the administration wing jumps out to the west and the hospital ward to the south; the complex was surrounded by an originally hexagonal (now extended to the east) surrounding wall with corner towers and gate buildings; with equipment. re-qualified "

- Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation ( Monument List Bavaria 771113 , PDF)

leisure offers

The prison offers prisoners various opportunities to spend their free time, for example a theater group led by the evangelical pastor Friedlein. In 2002 this group performed very successfully its own production "Weiber, Wahnsinn Wollwürst". In addition, various sports such as volleyball, jazz gymnastics, step aerobics, etc. are available to the prisoners.

Known inmates

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PDF ( Memento from October 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ https://www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de/staatszeitung/leben-in-bayern/detailansicht-leben-in-bayern/artikel/die-vergessenen-frauen-von-aichach.html
  3. ^ Rudolf Stumberger : The forgotten Nazi victims of Aichach. In: Neues Deutschland from March 28, 2018, p. 6
  4. ↑ Bavarian Monument List, file number D-7-71-113-109 ( Bavarian Monument List: Aichach , pp. 6–7; PDF)
  5. ↑ D-7-71-113-109

Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '7.1 "  N , 11 ° 8' 2.7"  E