Remscheid correctional facility

JVA Remscheid (from the north)
Information about the institution
Surname	Remscheid correctional facility
Reference year	1906
Detention places	557
Institution management	Katja Grafweg

The correctional Remscheid is, a penal institution (prison) in the independent bergischen city Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). It is the jurisdiction of the District Court Wuppertal assigned. Parts of the prison, such as the historic prison building with the church tower, are now a listed building . The JVA is located in the northeast of the city in the district and district of Lüttringhausen , an independent municipality in the former Lennep district until it was incorporated in 1929 . Due to its exposed location, on one of the highest points in the town center, the correctional facility is a building that shapes the silhouette both by day and by its lighting at night . The branch facility in Remscheid offers 271 open prison places.

history

The Lüttringhausen prison was built from 1902 to 1906 on a 115,000 square meter plot of land at the entrance to the city at the time, near the train station. The idea and plans of the facility were based on the drafts of the then Department Head for Prisons and Lecturing Council in the Ministry of the Interior in Berlin, the Secret Upper Government Councilor Karl Krohne (1836–1913). The total costs amounted to 1,305,000 marks, corresponding to 2,177 marks for each prison place set up. The construction was carried out by prisoners. In 1906 the Royal Prison (zu) Lüttringhausen was opened . Later it was used as a penitentiary . Initially it was called Lüttringhausen prison and after the incorporation of Lüttringhausen in 1929 until the prison sentence was abolished in the course of the Great Criminal Law Reform in the Federal Republic of Germany by the 1st Penal Law Reform Act of 1969, the name Remscheid prison or Remscheid-Lüttringhausen prison .

The historical cell wing behind the more recent entrance gate consists of a four-storey, four-winged building made of mostly plastered bricks . At its front in the entrance area there is a square church tower, also built in brick, which clearly towers above the prison complex. The original furnishings included a church, a bathing area with ten showers and five tubs, an infirmary, a soft cell and a morgue. In 1962 the prison , which was still known as the penitentiary , was expanded to include a workshop building. The laundry from 1980 and today's outer gate with administration building from 1994 are among the other construction phases that were built in later years.

The only penitentiary school in North Rhine-Westphalia was first attached to the prison after its establishment in the first half of the 1950s (1952?) Until it moved to Wuppertal in 1977 and housed in adjacent buildings. After renovation and construction 1978/79 "branch office" Masurenstraße today is 27, initially with about 200 and after enlargement total of 275 places for prisoners in the open prison in the nearby outside the prison buildings.

In 2006 the new building of the youth detention center with approx. 70 places was opened within a newly listed 600 meter long prison wall , which replaces two outdated facilities in Remscheid and Solingen.

Jurisdiction

The Remscheid JVA is responsible for the execution of:

• Imprisonment ( Erstvollzug ) of three months to two years
• Imprisonment of more than two years according to the result of the admission procedure
• Imprisonment of more than 48 months for foreigners

The competencies of the penal institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia are regulated in the execution plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (AV d. JM of September 16, 2003 - 4431 - IV B. 28 -).

Political prisoner

At almost all times, but especially during the reign of the National Socialists , political prisoners as well as criminals were imprisoned in the penitentiary of that time . The following alphabetical list is incomplete. After the names (if known) the time of imprisonment in this penitentiary is mentioned and, if applicable, the further fate.

• Josef Angenfort (1953–1957)
• Ernst Bertram (1933), died in 1938 in Brandenburg prison
• Rudi Goguel (1934–), continuously imprisoned in other prisons and concentration camps until the liberation in 1945
• Lambert Horn (1934–1936), then imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he probably died in 1939
• Heinrich Imig (KPD) , to serve their sentences in 1939 in " protective custody taken" and in 1943 in the Dachau concentration camp died
• Josef Linden (-1942) then in "protective custody" in concentration camps Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück detained in November 1944 for penal battalion SS Special Regiment Dirlewanger drafted and apparently in December 1944 in Slovakia deceased
• Dagobert Lubinski (1938–), died in Auschwitz concentration camp
• Joseph Cornelius Rossaint (1937-1945)
• Hermann Runge (1936–1944), then released
• Hugo Paul (–1939), then imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
• Wilhelm Sandhövel , murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp on October 11, 1944
• Josef Schappe (1935–1938), then imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp until 1945
• Jack Schiefer (1936–1938), paroled
• Wilhelm Spicher
• Franz Stappers (1942–1945), died in Lüttringhausen prison
• Johann Baptist Steinacker, known as Hermann Steinacker , died after deportation on April 14, 1944 in Mauthausen concentration camp
• Karl Tuttas (1936–), freed in 1945 after imprisonment in several prisons
• Johann Vier (1934–1939), arrested again after his temporary release in September 1944 and transferred to the Flossenbürg concentration camp , apparently died in October 1944 in the Lengenfeld branch

A number of prisoners were called upon to disarm bombs towards the end of the war and were often injured or killed in the process. On April 13, 1945, 71 prisoners were murdered in the final phase of the crime in the Wenzelnberg Gorge , 60 of whom came from this prison.

Others

The Remscheid prison was included in the list of places of detention of the foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” by a resolution of June 20, 2003 .

It is also listed in the inventory of " euthanasia crimes " of the Federal Archives under "Lüttringhausen prisoners" (the use of the plural could indicate that the Tannenhof psychiatric clinic was also meant).

The prison newspaper “Kassiber” , which was compiled by inmates, was published in the prison .

During the run-up to Christmas, there is an Advent bazaar with the sale of objects made in the workshops.

literature

• The prison in Lüttringhausen. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 60, 1910, Issues I to III, Sp. 27 to 40 and Atlas Bl. 8 ( digitized version )
• Paul Pollitz: Lüttringhausen prison. In: District administrator of the Lennep district (ed.): The Lennep district and its communities. (= Germany's urban development .) DARI, Berlin-Halensee 1925, p. 93f.

Web links

• Internet presentation of the Remscheid correctional facility
• Enforcement plan for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, (AV d. JM of September 16, 2003 - 4431 - IV B. 28 -). (PDF 1.2 MB) Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 1, 2010, accessed on March 7, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information brochure: Law enforcement in North Rhine-Westphalia, publisher: Ministry of Justice NRW, 2008, p. 57
2. ↑ Prison in North Rhine-Westphalia, publisher: Justizministerium NRW, 2008, p. 57
3. ↑ Pollitz p. 93
4. ↑ Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 62nd year 1912; Supplement "Statistical Evidence", XIII. Pp. 35-37.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} [1] Speech by the then Justice Minister Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter on the occasion of the inauguration of the new Remscheid prison on August 20, 2007
6. ^ ^{A b} historical data from Lüttringhausen private homepage
7. ↑ ^{a b} History of Remscheid JVA  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on a private website  
8. ↑ NRW architecture database of the TU Dortmund
9. ↑ History of the prison school ( memento of the original from July 18, 2013 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. on the justice portal NRW 
10. ↑ http://www.datenbanken.justiz.nrw.de/pls/jmi/vp_ Zweck ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
11. ^ Enforcement plan for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, (AV d. JM of September 16, 2003 - 4431 - IV B. 28 -). (PDF 1,2MB) Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 1, 2010, accessed on March 7, 2016 . 
12. ↑ [2] Appreciation by the city of Remscheid on the occasion of the laying of a stumbling block
13. ↑ [3] Appreciation on the occasion of the laying of a stumbling block on the homepage of the city of Remscheid
14. ↑ [4] Lebensgeschichten.net
15. ↑ "We are the Moorsoldaten" The inmates of the former concentration camps in Emsland 1933–1936 Dissertation by Dirk Lüerßen, submitted on May 25, 2001 at the University of Osnabrück , PDF file p. 408
16. ↑ [5] PDF file , p. 430
17. ↑ [6] Memorial book for the Nazi victims from Wuppertal
18. ^ [7] Homepage of the city of Mülheim / Ruhr
19. ↑ Forced Labor under National Socialism and the Role of Justice a publication by the Buchenwald and Mittelbau Dora Memorials in collaboration with the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences by Helmut Kramer, Karsten Uhl and Jens-Christian Wagner (eds.), 2007, ISBN 978-3-9809391-9- 5 , PDF file p. 42, on the TU Darmstadt server
20. ↑ Dieter Nelles / Fritz Beinersdorf: The murders in the Wenzelnberg Gorge on April 13, 1945 ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
21. ^ Foundation EVZ on the homepage of the Federal Archives
22. ↑ Sources on the history of the euthanasia crimes 1939–1945 in German and Austrian archives edited by Dr. Harald Jenner on behalf of the Federal Archives, PDF file p. 36
23. ↑ randgruppenliteratur.de: prisoner newspapers according to federal states ( memento of the original from July 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
24. ↑ [8] RGA-online accessed on March 16, 2012

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '48.8 "  N , 7 ° 14' 17.2"  E