Schällemätteli Prison

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The Schällenmätteli prison is a former prison in the Swiss city ​​of Basel , which was used as a prison from 1864 to 1977 and as a remand prison from 1982 to 2004.

Surname

In order to keep prisoners busy, they were used to work on nearby fields ( mats ). In order to prevent attempts to escape, the prisoners had to wear bells around their necks during work , which they should give away in the event of an attempt to escape . This is where the colloquial name Schällemätteli arose .

Building

The penal institution was built in 1864 on Spitalstrasse, on the site of the former station of the Elsässerbahn , which had moved its station to the Centralbahnhof at Elisabethen-Bollwerk in 1860 .

The city of Basel had advertised a competition for the construction of a prison and Robert Moser received first prize from 15 competitors. The prison buildings were located within a square enclosure wall with four guard houses in the corners. In the middle stood the overseer's wing with the prison church above. From the supervisor's wing, three cell wings radiated in a T-shape in three directions. This gave a view of the three cell buildings from the supervisor's wing. The villa-like administration building was on the fourth wing . In the same year, Moser built the Lenzburg prison based on the same principle .

Schällemätteli prison

In 1952 the inside of the Schällenmätteli was rebuilt. The prison was no longer used between 1977 and 1982, but then had to be reactivated. Since the standards of the 114 cells, which are around five square meters in size, no longer corresponded to the European Convention on Human Rights , the prison had to be closed in summer 2004. Since then it was mostly empty until it was demolished, but was used again as an additional prison for hooligans during Euro 08 .

Meanwhile, the building, which was not protected, was demolished. The new building for the Biozentrum of the University of Basel is being built on the site . Construction of this Biozentrum tower began on August 5, 2013. By May 2014, the 12-meter-deep construction pit had been dug and prepared for construction. The foundation stone was laid in the same month. It was planned that the shell and the facade should be completed between June 2014 and December 2015. An appeal by a general contractor who was unsuccessful in the bidding process delayed the construction work, but was ultimately rejected. The opening is planned for 2019. [outdated]

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  1. ↑ Renato Beck: Schneider-Ammann shovels them all into the shadows. In: TagesWoche. May 13, 2014, accessed June 16, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Franziska Laur: The Biozentrum grows towards heaven. In: BaslerZeitung. July 22, 2015, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Biozentrum: new building. Retrieved December 9, 2017 (German).

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '52 "  N , 7 ° 34' 50"  E ; CH1903:  610,681  /  two hundred and sixty-eight thousand two hundred and three