Prison in Hanover

Entrance area
Information about the institution
Surname	Prison in Hanover
Reference year	1963
Detention places	821
Employee	approx. 500 (full-time)
Institution management	Matthias Bormann

Fenced-in area of ​​the Hanover correctional facility

The Hanover correctional facility is the largest correctional facility in Lower Saxony .

history

It was built from 1959 to 1963 as a replacement for the former Royal Cell Prison, which was erected outside the city of Hanover in 1875 , but was then located in the center of the city due to city expansion, at today's Raschplatz. The JVA on Schulenburger Landstrasse in the Hainholz district has around 600 places and houses around 13,500 people annually. It has a partial institution in Langenhagen for the execution of the deportation detention and a detention center in the Halthoffstrasse. The Hanover prison also serves as a so-called instruction department (also known as the turntablecalled), via which prisoners in Lower Saxony are distributed to the individual penal institutions throughout Lower Saxony after they have gone through the induction procedure in accordance with the Lower Saxony induction and enforcement plan . Around 13,000 prisoners are transported annually, of which around 6,000 spend at least one night in the transport house .

The nickname Hotel zur Kugel is still used today for the Hanover prison. This is due to the fact that from 1963 to 2005 there was a spherical gasometer in front of the main entrance .

Web links

• Prison in Hanover

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Prisons. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 206.
2. ↑ All about the JVA Hannover. In: niedersachsen.de . Prison in Hanover, accessed on August 29, 2020 . 
3. ↑ 50 years of the prison in Hanover. In: niedersachsen.de . Hannover Prison, 2013, accessed on August 29, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 46 ″  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 2 ″  E