Bamberg correctional facility

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Information about the institution
Surname	Bamberg correctional facility
Reference year	1753
Detention places	184

The Bamberg correctional facility is located on the premises of the private Elisabethenspital Foundation from the 14th century in Bamberg .

The prison, which was renovated in 1995 for 18.2 million DM, currently has a capacity of 212 prison places in primary and regular prison sentences , including 25 for women and 27 in open prison . The institution is popularly known as Cafe Sandbad because of its location on Obere Sandstrasse .

history

On September 28, 1328, the citizen Konrad Eseler set up a foundation to build a hospital, which was inaugurated in 1330 on the sand. The name St. Elisabeth , which can only be proven from 1404 , replaced the previous name Zu dem Heiligen Geist . The still existing St. Elisabeth Hospital Chapel was attached to the hospital .

Prince-Bishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1693–1729) made the decision to unite the Elisabethenspital with the downtown Katharinenspital. Papal approval for this was given in 1711. But only his nephew and successor Friedrich Karl von Schönborn (1729–1746) was able to hand over the administration of both hospitals to the Katharinenspital in 1736 . The inmates moved to the newly built Katharinenspital located on today's Maximiliansplatz.

The buildings of the Elisabeth Hospital were then used for high estates and university institutions. The university was able to set up its anatomy there. When the breeding and work house on Königstrasse was destroyed by arson in 1747, the Elisabeth Hospital building was considered instead of a new building. After overcoming legal concerns, the prince-bishop's penitentiary commission was able to acquire the property in 1753.

In the same year, Prince-Bishop Franz Konrad von Stadion und Thannhausen approved the relocation of the prison to one of the buildings. The new prison on the Regnitz was built according to plans by Johann Jakob Michael Küchel from 1754 . It also housed the spinning room for women, the poor children's house established in 1760 under the reign of Prince Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim (1757–1779) and the anatomy of the university.

From the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, there are no known building measures worth mentioning. An administration building was erected in 1960, stairwells were relocated. Further major renovations were carried out from 1966 to 1969 and from 1985 to 1988, with the facade being redesigned in color last.

literature

• The art monuments of Bavaria - Bamberg bourgeois mountain town. Vol. VI, p. 589 ff.

Web links

• Official website
• Frank Falla Archives: Brits in Bamberg Prison during World War II.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JVA Bamberg in the Bavarian Justice Portal ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 13, 2008  

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '35 "  N , 10 ° 53' 0.6"  E