Correctional facility Düsseldorf

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Correctional facility Düsseldorf
Information about the institution
Surname Correctional facility Düsseldorf
Reference year 1893
Detention places 850
Institution management Beate Peters (LRD'in)

The correctional facility in Düsseldorf is a correctional facility for adult male prisoners and detainees located in Ratingen in the Mettmann district . From 1893 to February 2012 the prison was in Düsseldorf-Derendorf . In prisoner and colloquial language, the old location was referred to as “ Ulmer Höh ' ” or “ die Ulm ” for short due to the postal address Ulmenstraße 95 and the slightly elevated position .

history

Old city prison ("criminal prison") Düsseldorf
Map of the Royal Cell Prison, 1893
Peter Ludwigs , mother B. Shows an old woman who accusingly points to three corpses. In the background the Ulmer Höh prison, 1937

At the end of the 19th century, the approximately 3.2 hectare area was still outside of dense settlement. The prison with prison hospital was built on a hill from 1889 and opened in 1893. The so-called “Weiberhaus” had already been completed in 1891 before it was fully completed. It has not been proven whether the hill was a former execution site. The prison replaced the old city ​​prison at Akademiestrasse 1 , which was set up around 1780 . At the Schulstrasse entrance, formerly No. 2a, the remains of the wall of the old royal “ arrest and correction facility ” are still in front of the Düsseldorf Film Museum .

The penitentiary was built as a Prussian cell prison according to the then modern criteria in the cruciform structure. The Prussian building boom of prisons had already begun in the middle of the 19th century with the institutions in Cologne-Klingelpütz (1834), Berlin-Moabit (1842) and Münster (1853). In today's North Rhine-Westphalia these include the prisons Herford (1882), Siegburg (1893), Willich-Anrath (1900), Remscheid-Lüttringhausen (1902) and Werl (1905).

Eight executions for murder are said to have taken place between 1892 and 1934. A number of historical legal cases and many events in the history of the city of Düsseldorf are linked to the "Ulmer Höh '", such as the separatist uprisings of 1919 and 1923 , the Schlageter attack, the series of murders by Peter Kürten , the Majdanek trials or the RAF - Trials of the 1970s.

The Ulmer Höh 'belonged to the district of the Dusseldorf Prison Office until 1933 , after which the Public Prosecutor General was responsible for the penal system there. During the entire period of National Socialism , the state prison was a place of political imprisonment, arbitrariness and abuse. Already after the fire in the Reichstag on February 27, 1933, more than 300 "suspicious" residents of Düsseldorf were taken into protective custody and imprisoned here. Most of them were political opponents , such as social democrats, trade unionists and communists. Several Jewish citizens who were abducted to the Ulmer Höh 'died there under unexplained or obviously veiled circumstances. In the last years of the Second World War , foreign foreign workers or forced laborers were also increasingly imprisoned. On April 28, 1944, an Allied air strike hit the detention center. At the time, the prisoners were housed in the air raid shelter of the district hospital in the area. But this was also hit. The attack claimed 36 lives. On November 2, 1944, 12 prisoners died in the hail of bombs. At the beginning of 1945 the prisoners who were still alive were evacuated to Wuppertal, Lüttringhausen and other places of detention. For the political prisoners, the end of the war on May 8, 1945 is the liberation. Shortly after the Second World War , the “women's house” became a youth house for male juvenile prisoners on remand.

With the opening of the prison hospital in North Rhine-Westphalia , the surgical prison hospital in the Düsseldorf prison was closed in 1986. With a reform of the authorities in 1970, the penal institutions of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia were divided into two intermediate authorities (penal authorities), one in the Rhineland, based in Cologne, and the other in Westphalia-Lippe, based in Hamm, based on the model of today's regional associations. The Ulmer Höh 'belonged to the Rhineland Prison Office until its dissolution. Except for the chapel, which is to be rebuilt, the buildings for apartments were demolished.

Men's house

In the men's house , the largest and oldest building section, prison sentences of between a minimum of three and a maximum of 48 months and detainees on remand were carried out. It could hold up to 529 prisoners. Prisoners and prisoners on remand were in separate sections. People who have already been convicted should be prepared for a life free from punishment while in detention. Other departments were the admission department , which all prisoners on remand went through, and the abstinence-oriented department , in which prisoners were prepared for drug therapy outside the prison.

New building in Ratingen

Prison behind the Volkardey recreation park in Ratingen

The new prison building is located on Oberhausener Strasse in Ratingen on a plot of land directly on the city limits of Düsseldorf. It opened in 2012. It has a total area of ​​over 125,000 square meters and its construction cost 180 million euros. There are 855 detention places instead of the previous 470. Until the end of 2011, the Neuss detention center and a youth center were part of the entire complex. Apart from a few communal cells, the prisoners are mostly housed in single cells with an area of ​​10.5 square meters and an attached bathroom. Five cells have barrier-free facilities. The new prison has around 26,000 square meters of main usable space and there is also enough space for leisure activities: a football field with artificial turf and a sports hall that can be divided up enable numerous sporting activities. A leisure center with a large room for cultural events, a chapel and a “multi-religious room” takes social, cultural and religious needs into account.

Transitional house

The transition house in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim (Heyestr. 63, 40625 Düsseldorf) is an open prison facility and can accommodate 34 prisoners. In contrast to the closed prison , the prisoners can pursue a job, training or further education outside the correctional facility. On weekends, they also have the option of going out or on vacation. The detainee pays a fee for board and lodging. The remaining income can be freely used. The employees of the General Enforcement Service help, among other things, with the job search and debt settlement and maintain contact with the employer.

Jurisdiction

The Düsseldorf JVA is responsible for the execution of:

The competencies of the penal institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia are regulated in the execution plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (AV d. JM of September 16, 2003 - 4431 - IV B. 28 -).

Prisoners' free time

Ulm echo

Since 1975 the prison newspaper “Ulmer Echo” has been the central medium in the prison and externally. 1,400 people outside the walls read the magazine, which is usually published four times a year. The editor is the prison chaplain Dominican Father Wolfgang Sieffert. Two prisoners are paid as editors by the institution.

church choir

A choir led by Lioba Lichtschlag has existed since 1984 and provides musical accompaniment to Sunday mass.

Famous inmates

Christmas concert

In December 1995, shortly before Christmas Eve , the punk rock band Die Toten Hosen gave a Christmas concert for the prisoners in the Düsseldorf prison.

Project "Knastmasche"

Under the label "Knastmasche", prisoners in occupational therapy produce their own crocheted hats ( Boshis ), which are offered for sale on the knastladen.de portal . As a trademark, the hats have wool threads crossed to form a grid.

Web links

Commons : correctional facility Düsseldorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Herbert Schmidt: "I intend to apply for the death penalty". The National Socialist special jurisdiction in the higher regional court district of Düsseldorf 1933 to 1945. (= Düsseldorfer Schriften zur recent regional history and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia. 49). Essen 1998.
  • Frank Troschitz: The handwritten memories of the Düsseldorf judicial officer Albert Baruth of the time of National Socialism. In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch. 65, 1994, pp. 185-216.
  • Peter Baumöller, Andreas Kussmann: Persecution and Resistance in Düsseldorf 1933–1945. A city guide. Published by the German Trade Union Federation, Düsseldorf district. Düsseldorf 1989
  • Peter Hüttenberger: Düsseldorf in the time of National Socialism. In: Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf. History from the beginning to the 20th century. Volume 3: The Industry and Administrative City. Düsseldorf 1989, pp. 421-657.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jva-duesseldorf.nrw.de/wir/behoerdenpraes/maennerhaus/index.php
  2. ↑ wz-newsline.de
  3. ↑ Royal Arrest and Correktionsanstalt (Akademiestraße 1); Royal Cell Prison (Ulmenstrasse 143) , in Düsseldorf's address book for the year 1893, p. 745
  4. ^ Royal prison and remand prison: Royal prison "cell prison" (Ulmenstrasse 143); Royal detention and correction facility (Akademiestraße 1) , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1894, pp. 760, 761
  5. ↑ Marc Ingel: It finally starts at the Ulmer Höh 'in Düsseldorf. Rheinische Post, December 30, 2019, accessed on January 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ wz-newsline.de
  7. ↑ blb.nrw.de
  8. ↑ Prison in North Rhine-Westphalia, publisher: Justizministerium NRW, 2006, p. 56.
  9. ↑ http://www.datenbanken.justiz.nrw.de/pls/jmi/vp_ Zweck ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Enforcement plan for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, (AV d. JM of September 16, 2003 - 4431 - IV B. 28 -). (PDF 1,2MB) Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 1, 2010, accessed on March 7, 2016 .
  11. ↑ "Substitute mom from the Ulmer Höh". Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Dusseldorf woman receives Federal Cross of Merit. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  13. ↑ 14 citizens awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  14. ↑ wz-newsline.de
  15. ↑ Toten Hosen concert, December 1995 on www.dth.de
  16. ↑ Ulrike Hofsähs: The crocheting prisoners from Düsseldorf. on: stern.de , January 23, 2014, accessed on January 24, 2014.
  17. ↑ Website in the portal knastladen.de. accessed on January 24, 2014.
  18. ↑ Successful "jail stitch" - prisoners crochet hats. on: rp-online.de , January 23, 2014, accessed on January 24, 2014.

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 32 "  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 28"  E