Schwalmstadt correctional facility

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Schwalmstadt correctional facility
Entrance to the prison between the town church and the former governor's wing of Ziegenhain Castle
Information about the institution
Surname Schwalmstadt correctional facility
Reference year 1882
Detention places 364
Employee 230
Seal mark of the Royal Prussian Prison Ziegenhain

The Schwalmstadt correctional facility is a Hessian correctional facility . It is located at Paradeplatz 5 in the Schwalmstadt district of Ziegenhain. The prison is partially surrounded by the “Great Wallgraben”, a fortification structure designed as a deep moat. In the closed main institution with the highest security level, around 300 male adults are housed with prison terms ranging from 24 months to life . Preventive detention for the federal states of Hesse and Thuringia is also carried out here. Up to 64 additional prisoners can be accommodated in the granary department, which is about 200 m away and is affiliated with a lower security level. This is where prison sentences are carried out for people aged 55 and over, prison sentences of up to 12 months and prison sentences for prisoners who are entitled to relax and take leave. The prison has around 230 employees.

history

The main facility is located in the former hunting lodge of the Landgraves of Hessen-Kassel and the later extension. The oldest components date from the 12th century. The first owners were the Counts of Ziegenhain, whose line died out in 1450. Subsequently, the county of Ziegenhain came to the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel by will. When Ziegenhain was expanded into a fortress in the 16th century, the castle became the center of the fortifications. In 1807 they were razed . After the garrison was abolished in 1832, the castle was given the purpose of a forced labor house for men in 1842. After the incorporation of the Electorate of Hesse, the Prussian government converted this building into a corrigendum in 1866 and into a penitentiary in 1882 . The entire palace complex was rebuilt between 1926 and 1930. In the following period it was set up as a preventive detention center for dangerous habitual criminals, and during the Second World War it served as a penitentiary again. After the end of the war, the institution was initially used by the occupying power, and in August 1946 it was handed over to the Hessian justice administration. At the end of 1986 an extension was put into operation after six years of construction. The extension is divided into five floors including the basement and, like the new single-storey factory halls and the sports hall, is adapted in its external shape to the topography of the old fortress bastion. After the extension was commissioned, the castle was renovated.

The closed institute with the highest security level is attached to a closed department with a lower security level, which is set up in the granary built in 1579. This house is the newer of two former fruit houses. The older of the two buildings was demolished in 1872. The remaining building was used as a prison for women from 1883. After the women had been transferred to another Hessian institution in 1956, those in preventive detention were housed in the Kornhaus from 1958. You have been in a separate department of the main institute again since 1973 and the granary and the adjoining fortress pharmacy subsequently became an open enforcement facility for a long time. This was later limited to the fortress pharmacy, while the granary became an institution of closed execution with a lower level of security. At the end of 2003, the open execution was relocated and the fortress pharmacy was closed.

Work and education opportunities

  • Carpentry : This is where mainly in-house carpentry work is carried out and furniture is refurbished.
  • Agriculture : The cultivation of land was increasingly taken up in 2001. Most of the goods produced there are processed in the institution's own kitchen. In addition, the prisoners of the Kornhaus prison department, who are suitable for loosening there, under the direction of an agricultural master, take care of the property's own property as well as the care of property belonging to other authorities on a contractual basis.
  • Bast factory : Here, bottle ornaments are made from natural bast and gold (fellum) by hand.
  • Vehicle construction : The tasks include creating and repairing vehicle trailers for cars in special sizes, repairing and manufacturing trailers, front / rear loader shovels for agricultural use as well as the repair or new construction of side wall superstructures, brakes, hydraulics or basic truck vehicles.
  • Locksmith's shop: Here, fence elements are mainly manufactured for an external client. All manual locksmith work is also carried out in the locksmith's shop. For external clients, upon request, a. Stairs, railings, fences and much more are made.
  • Entrepreneurial businesses: Here, in business premises set up by companies, etc. a. various assembly work carried out.

The prisoners also have the opportunity to do an apprenticeship to become a cook, construction worker, carpenter, metal worker or body and vehicle construction mechanic. In addition, the secondary school leaving certificate and / or the secondary school leaving certificate can be made up in the prison.

Incidents

On December 28, 1976, three inmates sentenced to life imprisonment held four officers hostage and escaped. After several hours, two of the escaped were arrested again. The third murdered a passerby and committed suicide .

On April 4, 1993, prisoner Lothar Luft, convicted of three murders, was liberated with the help of a tank. A friend of the inmate had stolen a wheeled armored vehicle of the type Fuchs from the grounds of the Herrenwald barracks in Stadtallendorf , so that four prison gates could be broken through and the inmate who was in the courtyard could enter through a hatch. They then drove out of the institution in the tank and escaped in a forest area. The triple murderer was not caught until three months later in Alsace .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Rhein-Zeitung : Background: Spectacular outbreaks of serious criminals , dpa , October 26, 2000

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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 39.8 "  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 5.3"  E