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Bavaria prison guide: Stadelheim, Straubing and Auskunft

Bavaria is Germany's largest Land by area, with its own Justizvollzug based on Munich rather than on a federal jail service. Stadelheim, Straubing and the smaller houses are Bavarian answers, not Prussian ones. Nobody can Google a list of people in custody. Auskunft is a Land matter.

Bavaria: how this area actually works

Munich is the capital families fly into, and JVA München at Stadelheim in Giesing is the house they mean when they say the city jail. It sits with the court district in people's minds and still is not the Hauptbahnhof. Nuremberg and Augsburg run their own court diaries in Middle Franconia and Swabia. Würzburg and Bayreuth pull the north of the Land. Straubing, in Lower Bavaria, is the high-security name that is not a Munich U-Bahn trip. Kaisheim and Landsberg appear in the same Bavarian chain, along with smaller Anstalten and Außenstellen. Flattening all of that into 'Munich prison' is how visits fail.

Bavarian prison law is not North Rhine-Westphalia's and not Baden-Württemberg's. A Munich prosecutor will not confirm a Cologne file, and a Cologne office will not confirm Stadelheim. Remand can limit contact until the court says otherwise. After sentence, the Land places people by security, programme and space, including moves from a city house to Straubing or to an open unit. Alpine and forest Außenstellen are not city remand. Austrian relatives in Salzburg or Kufstein are still dealing with German rules if the person is held in Bavaria. Schengen does not waive the gate.

This page groups prisons recorded as Bavaria. It is not a nominal roll of Stadelheim, Nuremberg or Straubing. Population figures, where an official page gives them, describe an institution. They are not names. If the paperwork later shows a Baden-Württemberg or Saxon Anstalt, the Bavarian travel plan is over. Read the notice for the house you were actually given, and do not copy a visiting length from another Land's website. Munich, Nuremberg and Straubing publish their own notices. A Giesing rumour is not a Lower Bavaria address, and Augsburg is another court town.

Finding someone held in Bavaria

There is no Bavarian inmate website and no German national one. Written Auskunft goes to Bavaria's prison administration on the terms it publishes. The lawyer at the Landgericht in Munich, Nuremberg or Augsburg is often first to learn which JVA took the person. Police cells overnight are not Stadelheim. Do not ring a gate in Giesing or Straubing and expect a name to be read out. A press report about a trial is not a placement. Stadelheim and Straubing will not read a roll to a caller.

Use the Anstalt name on the letter. Stadelheim is not Straubing, and neither is Kaisheim or Landsberg. A 'Munich' rumour can mean the court on the Nymphenburger side of life or the prison in Giesing. If the file moves to Hesse or Baden-Württemberg, start again with that Land. Private sites that promise a Germany-wide booking log are not the Bavarian procedure. Kaisheim and Landsberg are not Munich day trips. Match the town before you leave the Hauptbahnhof. Würzburg is not Nuremberg.

Visits and family practicalities

Permission comes from the Bavarian establishment, and remand visits may need the court as well. Stadelheim's process is not an open-unit visit and not Straubing's high-security routine. This page does not invent hours for Munich, Nuremberg or Würzburg. Read the live Land notice before you travel.

Identification is checked. Phones stay out of the hall. A visit approved for Augsburg will not open Stadelheim if the person has moved. Re-check the Anstalt before you commit to a flight into Munich or a train to Regensburg and Straubing.

Getting around Bavaria

Munich Airport and the Hauptbahnhof serve the south. Nuremberg's airport and station serve the north of the Land. Stadelheim is a U-Bahn plus a walk in Giesing, unpleasant in January and not the Marienplatz. Straubing is a regional ride east of Regensburg, then a local leg. Alpine houses need a car and a weather plan.

Drivers from Austria should not treat the border as the end of the journey. Parking at city JVAs is scarce. ICE through Ingolstadt or Augsburg looks fast until the last taxi. Use the official address. Do not navigate to the Justizpalast and hope the prison is next door.

Prison guides in Bavaria

Facility articles for houses we have sourced in this Land. Empty coverage here is this site’s map, not proof that nobody is held in Bavaria.

München · Local / remand (men)JVA München-StadelheimStadelheim is the Munich prison name even non-Germans recognise — Stadelheimer Straße in Giesing, where Bavarian courts send remand and local prisoners, and where visit desks expect you to book at least one working day before you appear at the gate.Read the guide →

Questions families actually ask

Can I look up who is in a Bavarian prison?
No. Stadelheim, Straubing and the other Bavarian JVAs are not on a public list. Auskunft is handled by Bavaria's Justizvollzug, not by a national search box.
Is Stadelheim the same as Straubing?
No. Stadelheim is in Munich-Giesing. Straubing is a high-security house in Lower Bavaria. They are different visits and different trains.
Does an arrest in Munich stay in Munich?
Often for the first days. Bavaria can later move the person to Straubing, to another town in the Land, or out of Bavaria. Confirm the Anstalt before you travel.

Other Länder (federal states) in Germany

land · StuttgartBaden-WürttembergBaden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg runs its own prisons from Stuttgart, not from Berlin and not from Munich. Stammheim, Bruchsal, Freiburg and the houses toward Konstanz and the Rhine are Land establishments. There is no national inmate search. A family asks this Land's Justizvollzug, and a Berlin office will not answer for a Stuttgart file.Open this area →land · BerlinBerlinBerlinBerlin is a city-state, so the prison system is the city. Tegel, Moabit and Plötzensee are the names families already use. The Berliner Justizvollzug handles Auskunft. There is no public list of people in custody, and a phone call to the gate is not how you locate someone.Open this area →land · PotsdamBrandenburgBrandenburgBrandenburg wraps Berlin. Potsdam is the capital, and the prisons families actually hunt are in Brandenburg an der Havel, Cottbus and the smaller towns, not on Unter den Linden. The Land answers its own Auskunft. There is no public inmate list, and Berlin's city desk is the wrong door for a Brandenburg file.Open this area →land · BremenBremenFreie Hansestadt BremenBremen is a two-city Land: the city of Bremen and the port of Bremerhaven, with Lower Saxony in between on the map. JVA Bremen at Oslebshausen is the house. Auskunft is Bremen's, not Hamburg's. There is no public list of people in custody.Open this area →land · HamburgHamburgFreie und Hansestadt HamburgHamburg is a city-state whose prison names are Fuhlsbüttel, Billwerder and Hahnöfersand, not the port terminal and not Schleswig-Holstein. The city runs its own Justizvollzug. There is no public inmate list. Auskunft is a Hamburg request, and a Kiel or Hanover office will not invent an answer.Open this area →land · WiesbadenHesseHessenHesse sits in the middle of Germany, with Wiesbaden as capital and Frankfurt as the city everyone actually flies into. Preungesheim, Weiterstadt, Butzbach and Kassel are different gates. The Land runs Justizvollzug. There is no public inmate list, and a Rhine-Main rumour is not an address.Open this area →land · HanoverLower SaxonyNiedersachsenLower Saxony stretches from the North Sea coast to the Harz, with Hanover as capital. Celle, Rosdorf, Oldenburg and the city houses are one Land system. Auskunft is Lower Saxon. There is no public inmate list, and Hamburg or Bremen will not answer a file that is still here.Open this area →land · SchwerinMecklenburg-VorpommernMecklenburg-VorpommernMecklenburg-Vorpommern is the thinly populated north-east, from Schwerin and Rostock to the Polish border and the Baltic islands. Bützow is the historic prison town. The Land's Justizvollzug is small. There is no public inmate list, and Hamburg or Berlin will not answer a file that still sits here.Open this area →land · DüsseldorfNorth Rhine-WestphaliaNordrhein-WestfalenNorth Rhine-Westphalia is Germany's most populous Land. Düsseldorf is the capital, but Cologne, the Ruhr, Aachen, Münster and Bielefeld all feed a dense JVA map. Auskunft is this Land's. There is no public inmate list, and a Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn map is not a roster.Open this area →land · MainzRhineland-PalatinateRheinland-PfalzRhineland-Palatinate runs from Mainz and Koblenz down the wine valleys to Trier and the French border. Diez, Wittlich and Zweibrücken are the prison towns families hunt. Auskunft belongs to this Land, not to Hesse and not to Saarland. There is no public inmate list.Open this area →land · SaarbrückenSaarlandSaarlandSaarland is Germany's smallest territorial Land, pressed against France and Luxembourg, with Saarbrücken as capital. JVA Saarbrücken is the house families mean. Auskunft is Saarland's. There is no public inmate list, and a French permis de visite will not locate or admit you.Open this area →land · DresdenSaxonySachsenSaxony is Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz, plus the Czech border. It is not Saxony-Anhalt. Bautzen and Waldheim carry heavy history and are working Land prisons today. Auskunft is Saxon. There is no public inmate list.Open this area →

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Confirm location, visits and hours on the official service. This site does not list who is in custody.

Official locatorBerliner Justizvollzug — Zentrale AuskunftsstelleOpen official site →