Heidenheim correctional facility

Heidenheim correctional facility - Heidenheim prison -
State level	country
position	Correctional facility
Supervisory authority	Ministry of Justice Baden-Württemberg
Headquarters	Stuttgart

Cell wing of JVA Heidenheim (2012)
Information about the institution
Surname	Heidenheim correctional facility
Reference year	1967
Detention places	45
Employee	23

The Heidenheim correctional facility was a branch of the Schwäbisch Gmünd correctional facility operated in the city center of Heidenheim an der Brenz . In the closed detention center were between February 1967 and August 2012, more than 1,000 male adult offenders in custody taken or were serving there a prison sentence . The building complex was demolished in the first half of 2014 .

history

View from the north

The Heidenheim correctional facility was built from 1964 to 1966 on a plot of around 4,000 m² in Helmut-Bornefeld-Strasse, and was commissioned in February 1967.

The building consisted of a 3-storey cell block with cells for 45 inmates and a 2-storey administration building, which were connected by an arched corridor at ground level. To the east of the cell tract there was a free-time yard . It was surrounded by a concrete wall about 6 meters high, which was provided with a steel sliding gate suitable for the passage of push buses without an upstream vehicle lock. On the western property line there were two access ramps leading to an underground delivery area . The buildings were partially clad with exposed aggregate concrete slabs and facing bricks . All windows of the cell wing were given a grating consisting of 8 horizontally mounted steel struts. Close-meshed perforated sheets were later attached to the windows of the cells to prevent objects from being passed on (so-called pendulum movement ).

Although after 44 years of use the closure of the prison had already been decided and was imminent, in 2010 around 50,000 euros went into improving fire protection . By the end of August 2012, all inmates in prisons were transferred to Ulm , Schwäbisch Hall and Ellwangen and prison operations were closed.

In the summer of 2013, the city of Heidenheim acquired the property from the state of Baden-Württemberg for 1.175 million euros . The detention center was demolished between January and May 2014 at a cost of 119,000 euros. From July 2015, the new was built on the site of the building of Heidenheim City Library , which opened in November 2017th

Jurisdiction

The responsibilities of the prisons in Baden-Württemberg are regulated in the state's enforcement plan.

The Heidenheim correctional facility was responsible for the execution of:

• Custody
• Imprisonment up to 1 year 3 months
• Preventive detention (until 1975)

Known inmates

• Armin Newerla, defense lawyer for Andreas Baader , Ingrid Schubert and Irmgard Möller , for supporting a terrorist organization
• Klaus Croissant , Andreas Baader's defense lawyer, for supporting a terrorist group
• Helmut Palmer , pomologist and civil rights activist , known as the Remstal rebel , for insulting
• Xatar , rapper and music producer , charged with armed robbery on a gold transport

Web links

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

• JVA Heidenheim - A look inside shortly before the demolition

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Heidenheimer Zeitung of October 21, 2014: From prison to library , accessed on October 27, 2015
2. ^ Ministry of Justice Baden-Württemberg on July 25, 2012: Enforcement plan for the state of Baden-Württemberg here: Changes due to the closure of the Heidenheim branch of the Schwäbisch Gmünd JVA. P. 3, point 5 , accessed on October 27, 2015
3. ↑ Heidenheimer Zeitung of October 21, 2014: A last look into the Heidenheim prison , accessed on October 27, 2015
4. ↑ Groundbreaking ceremony on July 23, 2015 ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Heidenheim City Library. accessed on November 10, 2017. 
5. ↑ Online enforcement plan for the state of Baden-Württemberg , accessed on October 29, 2015
6. ↑ JVA Schwäbisch Gmünd Info ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 October 29, 2015  
7. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of July 28, 1979: For release from prison , accessed on November 1, 2015
8. ↑ Der Spiegel of October 10, 1977: Murder Begins with the Bad Word , accessed on November 1, 2015
9. ↑ ^{a b} Heidenheimer Zeitung of October 21, 2014: Only memories are captured here , accessed on November 1, 2015
10. ↑ Der Spiegel from March 19, 2001: I never give in , accessed on November 1, 2015
11. ↑ All Good Magazine for HipHop from May 1st, 2015: I don't have to convince anyone anymore that I'm a gangster , accessed on November 1st, 2015

Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 38 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 16 ″  E