Kronach correctional facility

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Kronach correctional facility
Listed main building
Information about the institution
Surname Kronach correctional facility
Reference year 1807
Detention places 100
Employee 27
Institution management Ullrich Mann

The correctional facility Kronach is a correctional institution of the Free State of Bavaria in the Upper Franconian town of Kronach ; it is used for accommodation during pre- trial detention and the execution of prison sentences of up to 24 months for male prisoners from the district court district of Coburg . The 100 detention places are divided into 24 individual and 76 communal detention rooms. The correctional facility is located in the listed building at Festungsstrasse 9, which was built at the beginning of the 19th century, north of the old town of Kronach.

history

The three-storey sandstone cuboid building with a hipped roof was erected between 1798 and 1802 as a prince-bishop's box floor to store the tithe grain for the Bamberg monastery . The construction plans come from the Bamberg architect Johann Lorenz Fink, the work was carried out by Johann Baptist Dietrich. The construction took place against the resistance of the officers of the fortress Rosenberg directly to the north , who criticized the restrictions of the field of fire visible from the fortress by the new structure. The coat of arms of the last prince-bishop of the Bamberg monastery, Christoph Franz von Buseck , is affixed above the entrance portal of the building .

With the secularization of the bishopric in 1802/03, the granary and the city became the property of the Electorate of Bavaria . From 1807 it served as a depot for the royal salt factory , where goods intended for sale on the town's salt market were temporarily stored . The building is therefore often referred to colloquially as "salt construction". In the same year, seven cells were set up in the building, and since 1856 the former grain and salt store has been used only as a prison with interruptions . From 1877 it also housed the district court for a short time.

Towards the end of the Second World War , components for the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket fighter were to be manufactured at Rosenberg Fortress . As of September 1, 1944, most of the administrative premises required in addition to the production areas on the fortress were housed in the building that was then used as a youth detention center. The detained young people were transferred to the reopened youth detention center in Kulmbach .

In the early morning of August 31, 2018, a fire broke out in a false ceiling on the second floor of the building, which several fire brigades from Kronach and the surrounding area were able to put out relatively quickly with the support of the technical relief organization . The use was made more difficult by renovation work on the fortress road, the main access route to the correctional facility. Since the existence of further sources of fire could not be ruled out, the approximately 100 prisoners who had initially been evacuated to a secure area within the detention center were transferred to other correctional facilities. The cause of the fire was deliberate arson by an inmate. The fire and extinguishing water resulting property damage is estimated at up to 100,000 euros. The evacuated prisoners were transferred back to the reopened detention center from November 2018.

literature

  • Hans Kremer, Helmut Wenig: coat of arms stones and stone inscriptions in Kronach and on the fortress Rosenberg . Ed .: Working group for home care (=  Heimatkundliches Jahrbuch des Landkreis Kronach . Volume 4/1976 ).
  • Christian Winter: GeKro - Attempt to use the Rosenberg Fortress for armaments during World War II . In: Bernd Wollner, Hermann Wich (Hrsg.): Historisches Stadtlesebuch . 1000 Years of Kronach Association, Kronach 2003, ISBN 3-00-011351-7 , p. 423-431 .
  • Ludwig Hertel: History of Kronach in street names - A guide through the 1000-year-old Franconian town . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Kronach 2015.
  • Denis André Chevalley: Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .
  • Information board of the Lions Club Kronach on the building

Web links

Commons : Festungsstraße 9 (Kronach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Press Coburg from June 15, 2017
  2. ^ New Press Coburg from June 15, 2017
  3. ^ A b Bianca Hennings: Fire in the Kronach prison: around 100,000 euros in property damage. In: New Press Coburg. September 3, 2018, accessed September 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Stefan Wicklein: Mission report on the roof truss fire in the Kronach prison. Voluntary fire department of the city of Kronach, accessed on September 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Julia Knauer: Complete prison evacuated. In: New Press Coburg. August 31, 2018, accessed September 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Peter Fiedler, Julia Knauer: Fire use without visible flames. In: New Press Coburg. August 31, 2018, accessed September 1, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Fire in prison. In: infranken.de. August 31, 2018, accessed September 1, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Magdalena Kestel: Judgment on the arson in Kronach prison: When acquittal does not bring freedom. In: inFranken.de. July 17, 2019, accessed July 17, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Christian Kreuzer: Kronach is in prison again . In: New Press Coburg . November 7, 2018, p. 9 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 35.7 "  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 33.7"  E