The Heidelberg student prison is a relic from distant times. Lots of young gentlemen who went too far and then drove into the student prison. Pretty loose confinement. Now the listed student detention center will soon be renovated. And that’s why all of the more than 2,000 paintings, pictures and graffiti on the ceilings and walls of the historic detention center at Heidelberg University have been digitized. For future free online tours.
The digitization of the prison ran for more than three years
A tour of the student detention center at Heidelberg University. Generations of students have immortalized themselves with their self-portraits on the walls. The historian Kristian Willenbacher describes the crimes that earned the academics, who loved to sing and drink, a few days in prison in the student detention center
In 1914 the Heidelberg student prison was closed. However, it has been preserved as a museum tourist attraction to this day. Now, however, the renovation is pending. The inventory on the walls has already taken place. For more than three years, students of the Art History seminar at the University of Heidelberg photographed and digitally processed all the existing images. Now everything is online.
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There were no paints for wall painting in the student detention center: chewed bread had to be used as a picture frame.
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Eberhard Reuss
The selfies of the generation around 1900
A digital tour of six detention cells. In room 207, on the west wall 15d, Franz Schandelmaier has immortalized himself. In 1914 the last student in the prison. For urinating in public. Other inmates have left poetic traces on the walls.
But the most beautiful and most important thing in the Heidelberg student detention center are the drawings and pictures. The “selfies” of the “student around 1900” generation. Painted with paint, soot and leftover food. Because the picture frames for photos were made by the students from chewed bread. Plenty of beer flowed too. Because the consumption of alcohol in unlimited quantities was allowed in the prison.
Heidelberg student jail: What’s up with the doodles?
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