Mainz correctional facility

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The Mainz correctional facility (JVA) was a penal institution in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It was located in the state capital Mainz . It was one of two penal institutions in the country that were closed in December 2002 and replaced by the Rohrbach penal institution .

history

Mainz had been the place of jurisdiction for many centuries. With the establishment of the Donnersberg department in the wake of the French Revolution , a higher court was set up in Mainz for the jurisdiction of the second instance in order to implement the Code pénal , the penal code of the French legal system. This court continued to exist in the time of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . A prison building was attached to each.

The building of the grand ducal correctional facility in Mainz was erected on the site of the palace barracks , which was also to serve as a war hospital barracks, between 1906 and 1910 . The Stuttgart architects Paul and Karl Bonatz won the tender for the architectural design of the building at the sensitive interface between the old town and the new town . One of the specifications of the tender was that the building should blend in with its surroundings as inconspicuously as possible. It should

"Form a worthy component in the monumental expansion of the Schlossplatz initiated by the city of Mainz"

- Excerpt from the tender text of the Grand Ducal Building Department

.

The Bonatz brothers planned to conceal the prison building in the style of the nearby courthouse ( district court and regional court ) in order to meet the requirements of the authorities, which served the purpose of not confronting the residents of the newly won district around the magnificent boulevard Kaiserstraße with convicts.

Todays use

Today's "Isenburg Karree".

In the wings of the former Mainz JVA, offices were set up in place of cells until 2015. The building was completely gutted and converted into an office and administration center. With an estimated construction cost of 18 million euros, the Landesbetrieb Liegenschafts- und Baubetreuung built the “Isenburg-Karree” in the government district, named after the reform bishop Diether von Isenburg . Since the end of October 2015, the building has been used as a temporary location for the 130 employees of the state parliament administration.

Trivia

The prison was the setting for the series Ein Fall für Zwei several times .

literature

  • Frank Schmidt-Wyk: From the treadmill to the Bridge of Sighs | A quarter of a century of prison history in Mainz is coming to an end. in Mainz: quarterly issues for culture, politics, economics, history; Volume 23 (2003), quarter 4, pp. 65–68; Volume 24 (2004), quarter 1, pp. 66–72.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Georg Ruppel: Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse: with evidence of district and court affiliation from 1820 to the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform, 1976, pp. 37, 15 and 19
  2. ↑ Markus Schug: Conversion of the Mainz prison - open- plan offices instead of prison cells in FAZ from January 7, 2009
  3. ↑ Neli Mihaylova: XXL move: State Parliament administration is in Isenburg-Karree from Monday / plenary hall is used until December in Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung from October 24, 2015

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 21.7 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 5.1 ″  E