Correctional Institution Koblenz

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Correctional Institution Koblenz
Information about the institution
Surname Correctional Institution Koblenz
Detention places 173 (in 2019)
Institution management Andrea Kästner (since 2013)

The correctional facility Koblenz is a correctional facility of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Koblenz district of Karthaus .

history

Initially, a vaulted cellar in one of the towers of the Old Castle or under the approach ramp of the Balduin Bridge was used as a prison room in Koblenz and later in the Ochsenturm until almost the end of the 18th century . Because there was no heating there, the male prisoners were locked in one of the Koblenz hospitals in winter - the female prisoners all year round . In addition, there was a breeding and work house at various locations from 1770 . In Ehrenbreitstein , which was still independent at the time, there was an Electoral Trier state prison in the casemates on the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress .

In October 1794, Koblenz was occupied by French revolutionary troops during the First Coalition War and in 1802 all religious orders were abolished. A few years earlier, the French had set up a cantonal prison ( position ) in parts of the Carmelite monastery . The building, mostly known as a detention or correction house and later the royal prison , became the property of the city in 1807 and of the Department de Rhin-et-Moselle in 1811 . In 1815, for example, 115 men and 54 women with 17 children were housed and after the Nazis came to power in 1933, 230 police prisoners were held in protective custody . The Prussian army had had its own military detention center near the former Dominican monastery since 1818 (address 1913: Fischelstrasse 32a, position ), which the Allied occupying powers used until the 1920s. Both buildings were destroyed by air raids in 1944.

Since there were no more prison buildings in the city of Koblenz after the Second World War, the French military government decided on July 27, 1946 to set up a prison for German war criminals and French prisoners in the Karthaus district (Simmerner Strasse 14a) . The so-called team house III / IV of the former Spitzberg barracks was planned , which was originally built between 1911 and 1913 for two companies of the 68th Infantry Regiment and was last used as an administrative building for Arbeitsgau XXIV (Middle Rhine) of the Reich Labor Service . After the war damage had been repaired, the window openings were made smaller and barred, and further changes were made to the entire building. In 1952, the reconstruction of the former staff building of the barracks was completed. It was initially used for civil servants' apartments and since a renovation (1979–1982) as an outdoor house. When the Neuwied prison was closed in 1971, a women's department was relocated to here. In 1955 a new kitchen wing was built and a new gate building from 1979–1981. After a spectacular outbreak in the 1980s, in which several prisoners were able to flee through a hole drilled in the outer wall towards Simmerner Strasse, the security of the entire outdoor area was reinforced and video cameras were installed for permanent surveillance.

Between December 2nd and 5th, 2011 all inmates had to be evacuated due to a bomb disposal on the Rhine and distributed to other prisons in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Jurisdiction

The JVA Koblenz is exclusively responsible for prisoners from the district court district Koblenz . In closed prisons it takes only male and female adults since 2014 on remand on; adult female prisoners in open prison as well as adult male prisoners with less than a year to serve. The occupancy capacity has developed as follows in recent years:

year Closed execution Open execution total
2012 211 51 262
2013 148 51 199
2014 148 51 199
2015 148 26th 174
2016 147 26th 173
2019 147
(of which 138 for men and 9 for women)		 26
(including 12 for men and 14 for women)		 173

The prison received an average of 1,578 detainees per year between 2012 and 2016.

Known inmates

literature

  • Katharina Demleitner: Fewer prisoners in the country . In: Rhein-Zeitung Online . January 18, 2019 ( rhein-zeitung.de ).
  • Werner Henrich: Our prison . In: Festschrift 50 years of St. Beatus . Koblenz 1998, p. 141-142 .
  • Ministry of Justice in Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Answer to the major question of the CDU parliamentary group on the situation of the penal system in Rhineland-Palatinate (printed matter 17/2698) . Mainz April 6, 2017 ( documente.landtag.rlp.de [PDF; accessed October 1, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Spitzberg-Kaserne  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ministry of Justice in Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Situation of the penal system in Rhineland-Palatinate ( printed matter 17/2698 ). P. 8.
  2. ↑ a b Katharina Demleitner: Fewer prisoners in the country: Nevertheless, the Koblenz prison is constantly overcrowded. In: Rhein-Zeitung. January 18, 2019, archived from the original on October 2, 2019 ; accessed on May 18, 2020 .
  3. ^ Fritz Michel : Old Coblenz courts . In: Administration of justice in old Coblenz . Koblenz 1911, p. 5–16, here p. 11 ( dilibri.de ).
  4. ↑ Hans Bellinghausen (Ed.): 2000 years Koblenz . Boppard 1973, p. 122 .
  5. ↑ G. Reitz: The former Koblenz hospitals . In: Middle Rhine history sheets . tape 8 , no. 1 . Koblenz 1928, p. 1–2, here p. 1 ( dilibri.de ).
  6. ↑ Georg Fiebig: The Koblenz Bastille . In: Koblenzer Heimatblatt . tape 7 , no. 5 . Koblenz February 2, 1930, p. 1-2 ( dilibri.de ). Karl Zimmermann: The prison on the Ehrenbreitstein and the last Kurtrier fortress commander . In: Koblenzer Heimatblatt . tape
     7 , no. 12 . Koblenz March 23, 1930, p. 1-2 ( dilibri.de ).
  7. ↑ From October to the end of December 2016, the Koblenz state archive on the former prison on Karmeliterstraße hosted the exhibition Security Keeping. Prison life and archive take place in Koblenz .
  8. ^ Hans Bellinghausen: The Carmelite Church in Coblenz . In: Coblenzer Heimatblatt . tape 3 , no. 15 . Koblenz April 11, 1926, p. 1 ( dilibri.de ).
  9. ↑ Peter Brommer: Between Destruction and Reconstruction. Koblenz from 1945 to 1949 . In: Cultural Department of the City of Koblenz (ed.): 1945–1949: End of the war and a new beginning in Koblenz (=  Koblenz contributions to history and culture . Volume 6 ). Koblenz 1996, p. 63-107, here pp. 91-92 . Werner Henrich: Our prison. P. 141.
  10. ↑ Hartmut Wagner: 200 prisoners in Koblenz have to move . In: Rhein-Zeitung Online . November 27, 2011 ( rhein-zeitung.de ).
  11. ↑ Interesting facts from the Koblenz prison. In: jvako.justiz.rlp.de. Koblenz correctional facility, accessed on May 18, 2020 .
  12. ^ Ministry of Justice in Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Situation of the penal system in Rhineland-Palatinate ( Drucksache 17/2698 ). P. 6.
  13. ↑ Hartmut Wagner: Koblenz prison receives new boss . In: Rhein-Zeitung Online . September 27, 2013 ( rhein-zeitung.de , Internet archive ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 54 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  E