Eichstätt deportation center

Information about the institution
Surname	Eichstätt deportation center
Detention places	96 (86 men, 10 women)

The deportation detention center Eichstätt is a special institution for deportation detention in Eichstätt in Upper Bavaria . Until 2017 it was a correctional facility .

history

In 1810 there was a building in Eichstätt which was known as the official building and the main frontage . It had 31 holding cells and three interrogation rooms. In 1891 it became a royal prison. In 1900 the institution was closed. The building was demolished in 1970 for a telecommunications office . The current location is the former regional court prison on what was then Freiwasserstraße, now Weißenburger Straße.

On February 29, 2016, the correctional facility was closed. It was reopened as a deportation detention center on June 12, 2017. It offers space for 86 men and ten women.

There is protest from the population against the detention center. A non-partisan alliance against deportation detention Eichstätt was founded, which u. a. organized a demonstration against deportation detention on May 14, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eichstätt: Over 100 years of prison history . In: donaukurier.de . ( donaukurier.de [accessed on April 20, 2018]).
2. ↑ Brief information about the institution. December 31, 2015, accessed April 20, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Deportation prison opened . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 12, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 20, 2018]).
4. ↑ Tobias Betz and Joseph Röhmel, Bayerischer Rundfunk: Controversial facility opened: demonstration against deportation prison Eichstätt | BR.de . June 12, 2017 ( archive.org [accessed April 22, 2018]).
5. ↑ Eichstätt: On June 1st, operations in the Eichstätter deportation detention center are supposed to begin . In: donaukurier.de . ( donaukurier.de [accessed on April 20, 2018]).
6. ^ "Escape is not a crime" , Donaukurier, May 14, 2017

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '33.4 "  N , 11 ° 10' 44.4"  E