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Former Prison at Holzweiher

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    October 25, 2022

    A very nice and cozy quiet place where you can let yourself go and enjoy nature, the peace, the serenity of the forest.
    Admission is free and you can come here as often as you want and feel good.

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      An information board reminds of the camp, of which nothing remains except the entrance gate and a few fence posts.

      The branch office was in operation until the early 1970s. The prisoners worked according to an estate in the stables, in the forest as a forestry detachment and in the fishing operation there during the day and were brought back to their cells in the evening. Agricultural areas, a tree nursery, animal husbandry, cattle, pigs and initially also horses and some ponds with fish stocks emerged.[6] Today the area is used by the Bavarian State Forests. There are some agricultural buildings on the site, a residential building for JVA officials and their families, farm buildings and ponds. The ponds are breeding and resting places for rare waterfowl[7]. In 2017, an information board was set up at the entrance by the Bavarian State Forests.[8]

      The site is still completely fenced off, locked and cannot be entered.

      de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehemalige_Strafanstalt_am_Holzweiher

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        February 7, 2023

        The area was radically deforested for the first time in the years 1100 to 1300 to meet the fuel and construction wood needs of the up-and-coming city of Nuremberg. In the 14th century there was a threat of desertification and in the 15th century pine monocultures were reforested there. The barren, sandy soil was completely unattractive for agriculture, but the forests were able to re-establish themselves on the Fischbach groundwater bed. It stayed with the forestry use, plus a little beekeeping.[4] During the First World War, the Russenwiese prisoner of war camp was set up 500 m to the west, which later, during the National Socialist period, was operated as a labor education camp. During the night air raids on 10./11. and 27./28. August 1943, which would actually have been intended for the marshalling yard five kilometers to the west, the camp was hit and then abandoned. The fields bordering to the east were also completely devastated by false drops and forest fires. In addition, as the war progressed, there were pieces of debris from downed machines, since the area was exactly halfway between the Fischbach and dozenteich anti-aircraft positions and it initially remained fallow land in the post-war period.

        It was not until 1952, when the Nuremberg judicial institutions were handed over to the German authorities again and the core city had been cleared of the heaviest war debris, that the Reichswald also began to be cleaned up. As a branch of the prison, the area was fenced in and partly reforested, postal address Nuremberg Waldpflanzgarten. The Fischbach was dammed to form a wooden pond and the bomb craters on the Hutgraben to the north were expanded to form a chain of ponds. The facilities on Brunner Weg/Holzweiher were not communicated to the public and largely went unnoticed. In October 1967 there was an armed robbery at the site in which a vehicle was stolen

        Source: Wikipedia

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          January 21, 2024

          Former prison camp.

          The branch was in operation until the early 1970s. The prisoners worked on a farm in the stables, in the forest as a forestry detail and in the fishing business there during the day and were returned to their cells in the evening. Agricultural areas, a tree nursery, animal breeding, cattle, pigs and initially also horses and some ponds with fish were created. Today the site is used by the Bavarian State Forests. There are some agricultural buildings, a residential building for correctional officers and their families, farm buildings and ponds on the site. The ponds are breeding and resting places for rare water birds. In 2017, the Bavarian State Forests set up an information board at the entrance.

          The area is still completely fenced in, locked and cannot be entered.

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            May 29, 2024

            The former prison at Holzweiher was a branch of the Nuremberg correctional facility and is located in the unincorporated area of Forsthof in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria.

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