List of correctional facilities in Berlin

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The list of penal institutions in Berlin shows existing and former penal institutions in the state of Berlin .

Correctional facilities

Correctional facility place Installation Occupancy Remarks image
Tegel correctional facility Berlin Tegel 1898 938 The Tegel correctional facility in the district of the same name in the Reinickendorf district of Berlin is the largest closed and at the same time one of the oldest correctional facilities in Germany. Convicted male adult prisoners have been serving their sentences there since 1898. Tegel Seidelstrasse JVA.JPG
Prison Moabit Berlin-Moabit 1881 946 The Moabit correctional facility (JVA Moabit) was built as the royal remand prison in the Moabit district in the years 1877–1881 and is now a listed building. Today it is the remand prison in Berlin. Moabit Alt-Moabit Prison Detention Center.jpg
Plötzensee correctional facility Berlin-Plötzensee 1868-1879 560 The Plötzensee correctional facility (popularly known as Plötze in Berlin) has served as a closed and open penal system for men since 1998 . Since January 1, 2013, the Plötzensee JVA, the Charlottenburg JVA and the Berlin Prison Hospital have been part of a joint agency called the Plötzensee Prison. It is partially located on the premises of the Prussian Plötzensee prison . Charlottenburg-Nord Friedrich-Olbricht-Damm JVA-002.JPG
Juvenile detention center Berlin Berlin-Plötzensee 1987 432 There are various care areas in the Berlin juvenile prison. They differ essentially in terms of length of detention and the type of detention. Further differentiations are made in the pedagogical and therapeutic concepts as well as in the clientele and their problems. Charlottenburg-Nord Friedrich-Olbricht-Damm 38.JPG
Correctional Institution for Women Berlin Berlin-Lichtenberg , Berlin-Neukölln , Berlin-Reinickendorf , Berlin-Pankow 1860 254 Treatment in the prison for women in Berlin takes a holistic approach. A multi-professional team of in-house specialists as well as external cooperation partners is on duty for this purpose. Closed execution in Berlin-Lichtenberg (Alfredstraße 11) together with the branch in Berlin-Pankow (Arkonastraße 56). Institutions for open enforcement in Berlin-Reinickendorf (Ollenhauerstraße 128) and Berlin-Neukölln (Neuwedeller Straße 4). Women's prison in Berlin-Lichtenberg (women's jail, autumn 2008) - panoramio.jpg
Juvenile detention center Berlin - Brandenburg Berlin-Lichtenrade 2012 60 The Berlin-Brandenburg juvenile detention center is responsible for the enforcement of detention on female and male adolescents and adolescents in the states of Berlin and Brandenburg.

The youth arrest is an educational measure according to the Youth Courts Act (JGG) and serves to sanction juveniles and adolescents who have committed criminal offenses by means of short-term imprisonment.

Lützowstraße youth detention center 1.jpg
Prison of the open execution Berlin Berlin-Hakenfelde , Berlin-Falkenhagener Feld , 2010 908 formed from the former facilities of the Hakenfelde correctional facility, Düppel correctional facility, Heiligensee correctional facility and the Kisselnallee sub-facility. As part of the employment, the Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße branch runs its own nursery. A central competence assessment procedure (KFV) is carried out to determine the school, professional and social skills of the inmates. JVA Hakenfelde 1.jpg
Heidering correctional facility Large berries 2013 647 The 647 detention places are distributed among the structurally identical units 1, 2 and 3. A unit has three levels with four residential units each. Each residential unit has 18 cells (exception: a residential unit with 17 cells). This includes a handicapped-accessible cell and a meeting room consisting of two single cells connected by a door for crisis prevention. JVA Heidering KW 2013 35.jpg

Formerly independent locations and former locations

Correctional facility place Installation closure Remarks image
Barnimstrasse women's prison Royal city 1864 1974 Bundesarchiv Bild 102-12436, Berlin, women's prison, Hof.jpg
Charlottenburg criminal court Berlin-Charlottenburg
Charlottenburg Kantstraße 79 Criminal Court.JPG
Hookfelde correctional facility Today the “Niederneuendorfer Allee location” of the “Berlin prison for open execution”. JVA Hakenfelde 6.jpg
Düppel correctional facility Berlin-Düppel Zehlendorf Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße JVA Düppel 02.JPG
Heiligensee correctional facility Berlin-Heiligensee
Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Hohenschönhausen Memorial 02.jpg
Lehrter Strasse women's prison Berlin-Moabit Today part of the Plötzensee prison Moabit Lehrter Straße JVA Plötzensee House 3-1.jpg


SA prison in Papestrasse Berlin-Tempelhof SA prison Papestr 01.jpg
Lehrter Strasse cell prison Berlin-Moabit 1849 1957 The Lehrter Strasse cell prison (also known as the Lehrter Strasse remand prison) was a prison at Lehrter Strasse 1-5 in what is now Moabit, a district in the Mitte district of Berlin. The building was built in the 1840s under Friedrich Wilhelm IV. As the "Prussian model prison Moabit" and was considered a particularly modern prison at that time, because the prisoners were housed in individual cells instead of the communal cells that had been common up until then. In 1957/1958, the Lehrter Strasse cell prison was demolished. Cell prison Moabit engraving 1855.jpg
District court prison Neukölln Berlin-Neukölln 1942 1977 Served as a youth detention center from 1942–1945 and 1947–1977, called “Café Schönstedt” by the Berliners. District court Neukölln-b.JPG
Rummelsburg prison Berlin-Rummelsburg 1877 after 1990 Rummelsburg01.jpg
Spandau war crimes prison Berlin-Wilhelmstadt 1878-189 1987 The Spandau War Crimes Prison was a prison located in the Spandau district, in which those convicted of the Nuremberg Trials of the main war criminals of the Second World War served their sentences from 1946 to 1987. After the death of the last prisoner, Rudolf Hess, it was demolished in 1987. Spandau War Crimes Prison - shortly before demolition.JPG

See also

Individual evidence

  1. The Berlin penal institutions. In: berlin.de. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  2. ^ Tegel correctional facility. In: berlin.de. December 8, 2017, accessed January 8, 2018 .
  3. ^ Moabit correctional facility. In: berlin.de. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  4. Plötzensee correctional facility. In: berlin.de. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  5. First information. In: berlin.de. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  6. ^ Prison for Women in Berlin. In: berlin.de. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  7. ^ Berlin-Brandenburg juvenile detention center . In: berlin.de. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  8. partial institutions. In: berlin.de. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  9. ^ Heidering correctional facility. In: berlin.de. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
  10. ^ Former criminal court in Charlottenburg. In: berlin.de. October 5, 2009, accessed January 8, 2018 .
  11. history. In: berlin.de. March 1, 2016, accessed January 8, 2018 .