Karzer (Koenigsberg)

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The Old Collegium Albertinum, on the right the Stoa Kantiana (1875)
Custody (2nd prison)

The Königsberger Karzer was the student prison of the Albertus University of Königsberg . Although a student stood before a civil court for disturbing the peace as early as 1857, the university judge was responsible for lighter offenses even after the introduction of the civil code. The Königsberg detention center was only released on July 14, 1914.

history

The first detention room was in the basement of Collegium Albertinum (Koenigsberg) under the Auditorium Maximum , the later magazine of Königsberg Public Library . It was accessible from the courtyard and had barred windows facing the Pregel . The rooms were damp and difficult to heat. At high tide the ground was under water. The structural deficiencies in the 19th century forced the detention center to be relocated to the upper rooms as a more homely custody. Rediscovered in 1892 by August Wittich , the archivist and city librarian of Königsberg, the cellar dungeon was repaired and used as a storage room.

In the New University on Paradeplatz (Königsberg) , the detention center was on the mezzanine of the western Liebenthal wing. It was connected to the pedals apartment by a spiral staircase . On November 8th, 1862 Arthur Kittel was the first guest at the "Gasthof zur Bad Herberge". According to his report, three pedals had asked him to attend an inauguration ceremony when he moved in. It took place over beer, grog and cold dishes with Kittel's federal brothers from the fraternity of Germania Königsberg . In those years the pair of pedals Klaws and Lange was well known in the city.

“The real Karzerpedell was long, stiff and grumpy, had a heart like a child, was pleasant and friendly, and was surpassed by his wife and daughter in both qualities. Often in this family circle an eighth was emptied in the detention center, a dance was dared or a student who did not have a hostel was housed there. The good Mrs. Lange, however, always pushed a soft bed under the hard night's camp. "

- Hans Lippold

Heinz Lettau carried out geophysical experiments in the detention center as late as 1938 . During the British air raids on Koenigsberg and the Battle of Koenigsberg , the Liebenthal wing with its inner courtyard, the detention room and some stucco medallions remained largely undamaged.

Reminiscences

Friedrich Zander , senior teacher at the Collegium Fridericianum , had the “poetic” graffiti printed in 1880. The pedell Tursky kept a guest book in which the inmates of his hermitage thanked him with poems for the care. Gustav Thurau published them in 1906 as memories from the Königsberg prison in the university calendar .

For the 80th foundation festival of the Corps Masovia , August Wittich had decorated the detention room of the old Albertinum with a large sign for Masovia (blue-white-red), three small ones for Borussia (white-black-white), Baltia I (blue-white- blue) and Scotia (blue-black-blue) and three for Littuania (green-white-red), Normannia (light blue-gold-black) and Baltia (white-light blue-black-white) - “as the colors of the old Königsbergers Country teams whose members once found leisure up there to think about the complaints of studying, the fencing floor and the pub. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans Lippold: The Karzer pedel celebrated with. Idyll in the Königsberg university detention center . Ostpreußenblatt , April 4, 1970
  2. ^ A b Fritz Gause : Karzer poetry on Paradeplatz . Ostpreußenblatt (newspaper clipping without date)
  3. Festschrift for Masovia's 50th Foundation Festival (1880), p. 40