Penitentiary Willich I

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Information about the institution
Surname	Penitentiary Willich I
Reference year	1905
Detention places	611
Institution management	Charlotte Narjes (LRD)

The penal institution Willich I came into being when the penal institution Willich was split up in 1985 into the independent institutions penitentiary institutions Willich I and penal institution Willich II . They are located in the Willich district of Anrath on the Lower Rhine between Krefeld and Mönchengladbach . Male prisoners are housed in JVA Willich I to serve their prison sentences , in JVA Willich II women.

history

The JVA Willich emerged from the Royal Prussian prison. Both individual institutions are located in four-winged buildings (cross structures) erected between 1900 and 1905.

In 1998 the prison was the location for an episode of the RTL series “ Alarm für Cobra 11 ”. The episode filmed there (name: A leopard runs amok ) was broadcast for the first time on October 1, 1998.

A new building was erected for the JVA Willich II (women) until 2009, for which a number of listed official apartment buildings were demolished. The latter led to violent but unsuccessful protests in the population and by monument preservationists.

In 2010, the Anrath district of the city of Willich celebrated its 1000th anniversary. As part of the celebrations taking place, the correctional facilities use the opportunity to offer an open house. During the weekend from October 1st to 3rd, 2010 1,300 visitors were shown through the two correctional facilities.

Jurisdiction

JVA Willich I is responsible for the execution of:

• Imprisonment for less than three months
• Imprisonment ( first execution ) from three months to two years
• Imprisonment ( regular execution ) of more than one year, six months up to and including two years
• Imprisonment of more than two years according to the result of the admission procedure
• Imprisonment of more than 24 months for foreigners
• Social Therapy Department

Branch office Krefeld:

• Pretrial detention , extradition and transit detention for adults

Branch office Mönchengladbach:

• Pretrial detention , extradition and transit detention for adults
• Civil
• Detention

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 -).

Facilities

Built in 1905 as JVA Willich, it was renamed JVA Willich I after the two institutions separated. The JVA Willich I offers space for 415 prisoners and is equipped with a social therapeutic department with 24 prison places. A workshop building has belonged to JVA Willich I since 1969.

Krefeld branch

The Krefeld branch was established between 1892 and 1894 on Nordstrasse in Krefeld. It has 73 places in the closed prison. Pretrial detention is carried out here.

Mönchengladbach branch

The Mönchengladbach branch was built between 1910 and 1912 on Scharnhorststrasse in Mönchengladbach. It has 123 places in the closed prison. Pretrial detention is carried out here.

Branch office Mönchengladbach-Giesenkirchen

The Mönchengladbach-Giesenkirchen branch was established in 1979 in a former prison school building. It had 62 open prison places . It was closed at the end of January 31, 2011.

Former inmates

• Verena Becker , RAF terrorist (until 1989)
• Maria Rohrbach , alleged murderer, acquitted after resumption (1959–61)
• Wilhelm Müller , resistance fighter against the Nazi regime after 1933
• Bernhard Burgstaller , abbot and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime (died here in 1941)
• Olaf H., perpetrator in the Mirco case , in the Krefeld branch (2011)
• For Hans-Jürgen Rösner see the hostage-taking of Gladbeck

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Königliche Potthusaren zu Anrath eV

The "Potthusaren" see themselves as a rifle group that is part of the Sebastianus Brotherhood Anrath from 1463. She wears the uniforms of the Prussian penal institutions listed in the Rawiczer regulations from 1835 and required until 1939, with which she would like to remember an almost forgotten section of the history of the prison.

The term “Potthusaren” goes back to a hussar regiment stationed in Krefeld from 1906 to 1914, whose officers' uniforms were similar to those of the prison officers of the time, so that the latter were often confused with hussar officers. Since the royal prison in Anrath was popularly referred to as "Pott", the term "Potthusaren" was quickly coined for the prison officers working in this prison. The group of "Potthusars" was founded in 1982 from 16 officials from the Willich I penal institution.

Prison museum

In 2003, a prison museum was opened in the former director's house, which is organized and supervised by the Potthusars and in which everyday life in prison is documented with many, sometimes even curious, exhibits, such as self-made radios and loudspeakers or imitation keys. The original protocols of the Nuremberg trials are also issued there, which are behind glass for safety reasons.

Web links

• Website of the JVA Willich I
• Website of the JVA Willich II
• Prison Museum website
• Video of the open house
• The end of the war in the Anrath prison in 1945
• 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. ↑ http://www.jva-willich1.nrw.de/wir_ueber_uns/grusswort/index.php (with branch offices)
2. ↑ Enforcement plan, intended purpose. Justice portal North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
3. ^ 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 . 
4. ↑ Information brochure: Law enforcement in North Rhine-Westphalia, publisher: Justizministerium NRW, 2008, p. 58
5. ↑ Information brochure: Law enforcement in North Rhine-Westphalia, publisher: Justizministerium NRW, 2008, p. 59
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Justice Ministerial Gazette for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia No. 4 of February 15, 2011, page 34
8. ↑ Krefeld: Mirco case: demo in front of prison ( memento of the original from February 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Dieter Bednarz and Bruno Schrep: "Being dead is more beautiful than being without money" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1989 ( online ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 7.9 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 17.1 ″  E