Prison in Schwäbisch Gmünd

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Prison in Schwäbisch Gmünd
Information about the institution
Surname Prison in Schwäbisch Gmünd
Reference year 1808
Detention places 335
Employee 220

The prison Schwäbisch Gmünd is a prison for women. It is located in the former Gotteszell Monastery in Schwäbisch Gmünd , Baden-Württemberg.

history

After the last inhabitants of the monastery moved out in 1808, the monastery was used as a penitentiary and state prison in Württemberg. In the beginning, both men and women were imprisoned in Gotteszell. For better protection, a 12-foot prison wall was built around the 9-foot-high monastery wall. On December 26, 1871, the new Imperial Criminal Code also came into force in Württemberg , which separated the penal system for men and women, which is why Gotteszell became a women's penitentiary and state prison for women. In 1893 the premises were expanded by a brick building, which is now a listed building.

At the beginning of the Nazi dictatorship in March 1933, the first women concentration camp in Württemberg was set up in the former Gotteszell monastery on Herlikofer Straße, in which around 50 women were imprisoned by autumn. On January 21, 1934, the remaining women were released from “ protective custody ” and the department was dissolved. During the Second World War , more women, including foreign political prisoners , were imprisoned in the former Gotteszell monastery.

After the Second World War, the former monastery continued to be used as a correctional facility.

Facility

The prison has a capacity of 335 places and employs 220 people. In 2008, the occupancy was an average of 322 occupants. A mother-child department enables children up to three years of age to be avoided from their mothers. Next to the Kapfenburg Castle near Lauchheim there is a branch of the institute where agricultural work opportunities exist.

literature

  • Markus Kienle: Gotteszell - the early concentration camp for women in Württemberg: the "protective custody department" in Gotteszell women's prison in Schwäbisch Gmünd March 1933 to January 1934 . Klemm and Oelschläger, Ulm 2002, ISBN 3-932577-39-6 .

Movie

  • Gotteszell - A women's prison , documentary by Helga Reidemeister , D 2001, 35mm, 104 minutes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schwäbisch Gmünd correctional facility .
  2. ↑ Gotteszell Women's Prison / Frank Falla Archive
  3. ↑ 200 years of prison in Schwäbisch Gmünd - the JVA “Gotteszell” celebrates the anniversary of the Ministry of Justice of Baden-Württemberg
  4. ↑ Gotteszell - A Women's Prison (PDF, archive version) Catalog entry in the Panorama of the Berlinale 2001.

Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 16.6 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 39.6"  E