Amberg correctional facility

Information about the institution
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Surname	Amberg correctional facility
Reference year	1786
Detention places	519

The Amberg correctional facility is a prison located in the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Palatinate . It currently has a capacity of 519 prison places.

history

The institution in Amberg was built in 1785 as a workhouse and penitentiary from an estate at the suggestion of the electoral chancellor Felix Adam von Löwenthal and was put into operation in 1786.

Web links

Amberg JVA website on the website of the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice

Individual evidence

↑ Klemens Alois Baader : Lexicon of deceased Baierischer writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Volume 2.1: A - P. Jenisch and Stage, Augsburg [u. a.] 1825, pp. 172–175 ( online in the Munich Digitization Center ).

49.435972222222 11.860177777778Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 9.5 ″ N , 11 ° 51 ′ 36.6 ″ E

[1] Klemens Alois Baader : Lexicon of deceased Baierischer writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Volume 2.1: A - P. Jenisch and Stage, Augsburg [u. a.] 1825, pp. 172–175 ( online in the Munich Digitization Center ).