Seehaus Leonberg

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The Seehaus Leonberg is a free-form youth penal institution in the Boeblingen district , which uses a building that was built by Heinrich Schickhardt and commissioned by Sibylla von Anhalt and is now a listed building for this purpose.

Emergence

With the youth custody law of Baden-Wuerttemberg, juvenile custody is anchored in free forms as a third form of execution in addition to closed and open execution (§ 7 JVollzG IV -Ba-Wü). In the Saxon and Rhineland-Palatinate Youth Prison Act, juvenile punishment in free forms is also anchored as a third form of execution (Section 13 (3) SächsJStVollzG / LJSTVollzG Rhineland-Palatinate). According to the drafts of most of the other federal states, juvenile detention can be carried out in free forms as a relaxation measure.

Since 1953, Section 91 (3) of the Youth Courts Act (JGG) has provided a way for an innovative juvenile prison system between closed and open juvenile prison systems: juvenile prison systems in free forms. The Ministry of Justice of Baden-Württemberg under Justice Minister Ulrich Goll took this path for the first time .

Since 2003 there have been two such alternatives to juvenile detention in Germany: the “ Project Chance ” in Creglingen (Christian Youth Village Association of Germany) and the Seehaus Leonberg. Since 2008 the EFJ has been running the model project “Learning to Live” in Brandenburg. In September 2011 the association Seehaus e. V. opened another facility in Saxony, the Seehaus Leipzig.

The Seehaus has also been operating the victim assistance work area since 2014 , with various victim counseling centers for those affected and their relatives.

The association is a member of Prison Fellowship International , an international association of around 120 member organizations in the field of free criminal assistance.

The establishment

At Seehaus Leonberg , the young people can expect a well-structured and hard working day. The daily routine starts at 5:45 am with morning exercise. Until 10:00 p.m., the young people are involved in a consistently planned educational program. House cleaning, school, work, professional preparation, sport, community service, perpetrator-victim compensation, social training and the communication of Christian values ​​and norms are an integral part of the concept. They serve to enable young people to learn to take responsibility and to be able to reintegrate into society as law-abiding citizens.

Reparation

In the Seehaus Leonberg, the young people should begin to repair the damage they have caused. In seminars and group discussions, they are confronted with the victim's perspective and are asked to carry out a victim-offender balance . Through charitable work, they provide a symbolic balance to society.

The family principle

An employee family lives together with five to seven young people in a family-like manner. In this way family life, which most of the young people do not know, is to be exemplified and conveyed.

Positive group culture

The young people should take responsibility for one another and guide one another. This should teach them to be there for others and to help one another.

Consistent education and training program

The young people are consistently challenged in a well-structured daily routine. You have to perform. At the same time, they are promoted in all areas (school, work, sport, music, ...) and should later be able to contribute to all areas of society. At the Seehaus School, they have the opportunity to prepare for graduation. You complete a vocational preparation year or the first year of apprenticeship in the construction trades.

Conveying values ​​and virtues

At Seehaus Leonberg, the employees want to convey Christian norms and values . Building on this basis, basic virtues such as diligence, ambition, order, discipline, politeness, punctuality, reliability, honesty, a sense of duty and self-control are demanded and practiced.

Civic engagement

With the juvenile prison system in free forms, a new path in juvenile prison systems is broken. Close cooperation between the state government, the state foundation of Baden-Württemberg , a non-profit association of youth welfare , the free economy, the churches and many other social groups resulted in an innovative concept for a modern youth penal system. Many individuals also volunteer at Jugendhof Seehaus or support the project financially.

Aftercare

The young people are also accompanied beyond their stay in the Seehaus, e.g. B. through care by volunteer sponsors, supervised youth living and an independent living community.

management

Tobias Merckle has been a managing director since 2001. Irmela Abrell is the Seehaus Leonberg facility manager.

The lake house

The lake house is an important cultural monument. It is located on the Solitude race track near Leonberg . It takes its name from the Eltinger See , which covered the lake meadows there.

history

Seehaus in Andreas Kieser's forest warehouse book , 1681

The Eltinger See was mentioned as early as 1442, but dried up during the Thirty Years' War. In 1523 a small house was mentioned there which served as a forester's apartment.

The ducal master builder Heinrich Schickhardt built the lake house there in 1609. The client was Sibylla von Anhalt, the mother of Duke Johann Friedrich von Württemberg . She lived as a widow in Leonberg Castle from 1608 to 1614 . The lake house probably served as a hunting and country residence. In 1609 Schickhardt built the "Vorst- und Seehaus Eltingen" with a central building, stables, in the west wing the "forester's house", in the east wing the stately living room above the horse stable. After Sybille von Württemberg's death in 1614, it became a popular destination for the royal rule to stay in the country.

In 1679 the sea meadow barn was built. In 1680 the seat of the forester was moved from the Seehaus to Eltingen. A dairy was set up in the west wing. In 1723 the Seehof was leased to Hanß Jerg Weber. In 1786 the "very dilapidated" west wing was torn down. After a positive report by the state master builder Etzel, the duke granted permission in 1796 to increase the central building. The roof was removed, a second floor was built and the old (Schickhardt'sche) roof was put back on.

In 1833, with the consent of the Duke, the estate was sold to the municipality of Eltingen , who sold it to Freiherr von Röder in 1845 in order to use the proceeds to finance the construction of the new town hall in Eltingen. This expanded the estate to include stables, kitchen extensions and chambers. In 1906 he gave it to his daughter.

In 1933 the new owner, Mrs. von Vischer-Ihingen, had a new west wing built. The barn was attached directly to the middle wing - in the sense of Schickhardt as a hoof-shaped facility. This was followed by the extension of apartments in the middle wing and in the east wing in construction phases until 1942. In 1984 the Seitter family bought the Seehaus estate.

In 2003 Seehaus e. V. (former association name Prisma e.V.) the Gut Seehaus and uses the Seehaus Leonberg as a youth penal system in free forms.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Seehaus ( Memento from June 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 30.5 ″  E