📋 Tender Overview
The new Rottweil Correctional Facility is expected to be put into operation in 2027. Once completed, the new building will replace older and smaller correctional facilities and branch offices.
Since June 2023, the state of Baden-Württemberg has been building a new correctional facility in Rottweil, which is expected to be operational in 2027. The new building is part of a comprehensive prison development program that will improve the structure and performance of the Baden-Württemberg prison system by creating larger and more efficient prison facilities. When completed, the new building will replace older and smaller correctional facilities and branch offices that have no development potential due to their size and equipment. This will affect the Rottweil correctional facility at its current location, including its branches in Oberndorf, Hechingen and Villingen-Schwenningen, as well as the correctional facility in Waldshut-Tiengen .
Strengthening performance
Minister of Justice and Migration Marion Gentges : “We have to overcome a multitude of challenges in the prison system. The persistently high number of prisoners makes it necessary to expand prison capacity. At the same time, it is necessary to develop efficient structures in prisons so that we can continue to guarantee safety and good working conditions for staff and provide sufficient treatment and care options for prisoners. The new correctional facility in Rottweil will significantly strengthen performance in all of these areas.”
The new correctional facility to be built in Rottweil with around 500 places will be responsible for the execution of criminal and pre-trial detention for male adult prisoners. The local responsibilities of the correctional facilities and branch offices to be closed will be largely transferred to the new correctional facility to be built in Rottweil. Continuing employment in the new Rottweil correctional facility is possible and planned for all employees.
New Rottweil correctional facility
The state of Baden-Württemberg is investing around 280 million euros in the new Rottweil prison. A total of 18 usage areas are planned with a total usable area of ??25,463 square meters with a total of 502 detention spaces. 52 detention rooms will be barrier-free. Construction began in June 2023. The shell construction work began at the beginning of 2024. Work on the fencing and the retaining wall is currently starting.
Smaller and older correctional facilities and branch offices
The Rottweil Correctional Facility consists of the main facility located in Rottweil itself and the three branch offices in Hechingen, Villingen-Schwenningen and Oberndorf. The main institution has 20 detention places, the Hechingen branch has 32, the Oberdorf branch has 16 and the Villingen-Schwenningen branch has 18. With the exception of the Oberndorf branch, which was built in 1909, the buildings of the sub-institutions date from the century before last. The main institution in Rottweil was built in 1861, the Hechingen branch in 1876 and the Villingen-Schwenningen branch in 1847. The Waldshut-Tiengen correctional facility has 53 places, the building dates back to 1848. Despite regular maintenance and renovation measures in the past, a prison operation would be in These buildings would only be associated with high renovation costs and expenses in the future, which would not be in relation to the available prison space capacity.
