Prison Vienna Erdberg
The Erdberg Prison was a judicial prison at the Youth Court of the Republic of Austria in the Erdberg district of Vienna's 3rd district Landstrasse . The prison, which last had 70 cells, was closed on January 1, 2003 together with the juvenile court. The remaining juvenile offenders were transferred to Department D of the Josefstadt Prison. Previously juvenile male was in prison on remand and prisoners housed who had to serve a prison sentence whose total length does not exceed 18 months.
history
On the basis of a resolution passed by the Provisional National Assembly on January 25, 1919, a juvenile court was set up in Vienna for the first time on October 15, 1920. This was initially located in the building of the former district court Landstrasse in the Viennese district of the same name and had to decide on all legal youth issues for the greater Vienna area. At that time the corresponding prison was still in the 10th district of Vienna, at the point where the Favoriten prison is located today . In 1922 the juvenile court moved to a newly built court building in Rüdengasse. After the Youth Court Act came into force in 1929, the Youth Court was installed in this building instead, which now also conducted criminal proceedings for juveniles. In the same year the prison was also moved to Rüdengasse, in structural connection with the juvenile court. At the end of the 1990s, the juvenile court and prison building was renovated for around 90 million schillings (around 6.5 million euros).
Under Justice Minister Dieter Böhmdorfer the sense of having its own juvenile court was questioned. Ultimately, Böhmdorfer had the juvenile court and thus also the Erdberg prison dissolved in 2003, whose competencies were transferred to the Vienna district courts and the regional court for criminal matters and the prisoners partly to the Josefstadt prison and partly to the Gerasdorf prison .
The building from the Ringstrasse era is now history and has been completely demolished. A modern residential building was built in its place.
Web links
- Böhmdorfer: Juvenile detention and relocation of JA Erdberg to JA Josefstadt . Article in Austria Journal 01/2003 on the dissolution of JGH Erdberg and JA Erdberg.
- Manfred Seeh: Once upon a time in Vienna ... a juvenile court . Article on DiePresse.com from April 6, 2013.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 56 " N , 16 ° 24 ′ 8" E