Salzburg Prison

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The Salzburg prison is a judicial prison in Puch near Hallein in the Austrian state of Salzburg . As a prison, the facility is responsible for executing pre- trial detainees and custodial sentences with a duration of up to 18 months. In addition, financial and administrative offenders are also executed in the Salzburg prison.

JA Salzburg has a total of 225 prison cells and 14 beds in the hospital ward. 30 places are reserved for women and 25 for juvenile prisoners.

history

The former prison in the court building of the LG Salzburg
Predecessor building of the prison - the Fronfeste at the current location of the regional court in 1907

In 1909, both the courthouse and the prison were opened in Salzburg's old town. From this point on, the prison (commonly known as “Schanzlalm”) was located in the middle of the city of Salzburg for more than a hundred years in structural connection with the regional court on Kajetanerplatz or in Schanzlgasse .

New construction of the prison in Puch

Due to the need for renovation and the central location of the detention facility, an outsourcing of the same out of the city center was considered from the beginning of the 2000s. In September 2008, the Ministry of Justice announced plans to build a new prison in Salzburg on the grounds of the Schwarzenberg barracks in Wals-Siezenheim . In return, protests came from the mayor of the municipality of Wals-Siezenheim and the Salzburg military commander Karl Berktold, who both rejected a new building on the site of the barracks, while both the justice minister and the governor supported this location. The final decision was not made until April 2010, when the Ministry of Justice announced that a new prison was planned in the municipality of Puch near Hallein . The new prison building was planned for more than 200 inmates on a 20,000 square meter property in the Puch-Urstein industrial park.

The new prison, finally budgeted at 30 million euros, was originally supposed to be built from the end of 2012 and move into in 2015. Crucial for this was that the Ministry gave the project priority over other judicial construction projects. After an objection from a neighbor who operated a 24-hour petrol station for trucks near the construction site of the future prison, the start of construction was initially postponed.

On September 4, 2013, after the objection was rejected, the construction work for the prison, which now costs 36 million euros and is to be built by the Federal Real Estate Company as the developer , could finally begin. The German architects BDA Poos Isensee from Hanover acted as architects for the new building . The building is designed for up to 227 occupants and 60 employees. On June 26, 2015, the prisoners of the Salzburg prison moved into the new building, which enabled the general renovation of the old justice building in Salzburg city center to begin. The entire building complex was renovated and that part of the building that previously housed the prison was made available to the regional court. The structure of the building and the outer facade were preserved for reasons of monument protection, but two former prison wings in the inner courtyard were completely demolished, and others were converted into offices. In autumn 2018, the Salzburg judiciary was able to move in again with court departments throughout the building, and the new judicial building in downtown Salzburg was officially opened in autumn 2019.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ORF Salzburg: New "model prison" in Puch article from May 29, 2015.
  2. ^ ORF Salzburg: New prison near Schwarzenbergkaserne? . Article dated September 23, 2008.
  3. ^ ORF Salzburg: Military chief against prison in Wals . Article of September 24, 2008.
  4. ^ Manfred Seeh: New prison, container village for Salzburg . Article in the daily newspaper Die Presse on April 9, 2010.
  5. ↑ Inquiry response (PDF; 150 kB) from the Federal Minister of Justice on the subject of the new building of the prison and the renovation of the regional court in Salzburg .
  6. ^ ORF Salzburg: New prison: construction started at the end of 2012 . Article of May 22, 2012.
  7. ^ ORF Salzburg: Prison: Entrepreneur blocks construction . Article of April 19, 2013.
  8. ^ ORF Salzburg: Foundation stone for a new prison . Article dated September 4, 2013.
  9. ^ ORF Salzburg: prison relocated . Article of June 26, 2015.
  10. ↑ Susanna Berger: Salzburg regional court clears offices for redevelopment. salzburg.com, May 12, 2015, accessed December 8, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Salzburg Justice Building: Renovation is going according to plan. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Justice complains about austerity measures when the Salzburg judicial building is opened. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . October 11, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019 .

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