Prison Niederönenfeld

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Information about the institution
Surname Prison Niederönenfeld
Reference year 1862
Detention places 261

The Niederschönenfeld correctional facility is a penal institution of the Free State of Bavaria in Niederschönenfeld . It has an occupancy of currently 261 prison places in the first execution . Men up to 26 years of age are imprisoned with a minimum sentence of 18 months and a maximum sentence of 4 years.

history

The institution was established in 1862 on the premises of the Niederschönenfeld Monastery as the first juvenile prison in Germany for male prisoners aged 14 to 26.

After the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic numerous due were treason to imprisonment condemned political prisoners detained in Niederschönenfeld; In 1920 the number of fortress prisoners reached the highest level at 95.

However, responsibility for young people ceased to exist in 1990 when the Neuburg-Herrenwörth correctional facility was opened .

Known inmates

literature

  • Ernst Toller wrote the then famous cycle of poems “ Das Schwalbenbuch ” while he was in prison in Niederschönenfeld.
  • Gerhard Lindinger, The time of fortress imprisonment in Niederschönenfeld , in Niederschönenfeld and Feldheim - 750 years of eventful history , Rain 1990 (Lindinger was head of the prison in 1990)
  • Erich Mühsam, Diaries , Verbrecher Verlag Berlin, from 2011. Mühsam spent his imprisonment in a fortress from October 1920 to December 1924 in Niederschönenfeld. Exact descriptions of everyday life in fortress detention, the conditions of detention, the guards and fellow prisoners.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To be found, for example, in ET: Selected Works. Published by the German Academy of the Arts. Berlin / Ost 1961, pp. 221-270.

Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 8.4 "  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 51"  E