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Bremen prison guide: Oslebshausen and city-state Auskunft

Bremen 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.

Bremen: how this area actually works

Oslebshausen, in the north of the city of Bremen, is where families go when a Bremen court has sent someone into the Land's Justizvollzug. It is a small system next to Hamburg's and Lower Saxony's much larger estates, which is why relatives book the wrong city. Bremerhaven has its own court life at the mouth of the Weser and a road or rail trip south to the city. The Land government sits in Bremen, not in a federal prison ministry. A Hanseatic label does not make this Hamburg. Fuhlsbüttel, Billwerder and Celle are other Länder.

Because the estate is small, specialist, women's, youth or long high-security placements often leave Bremen under agreements with another Land. That move is a justice decision, not a family booking. Remand can begin in Oslebshausen and still end in Lower Saxony or Hamburg. Untersuchungshaft restrictions come from the Bremen court or prosecutor. Do not assume a visiting rule you saw on a Hamburg page applies in Oslebshausen. The two city-states publish their own notices. A Bremerhaven court date is not a Hamburg slot and not a Celle one. Read the Freie Hansestadt's own notice.

This page groups prisons recorded as Bremen. It does not list who is held in Oslebshausen. A harbour arrest is not automatically a prison sentence, and police custody at the port is not the JVA. If the letter names a house in Hanover, Oldenburg or Hamburg, follow that letter. Cross-reading Lower Saxony's map because the motorway is continuous will put you at the wrong gate. Oslebshausen is in the city of Bremen, north of the centre, not at the port terminal in Bremerhaven. Specialist moves to Lower Saxony are written transfers, not guesses from a motorway map.

Finding someone held in Bremen

Bremen does not publish an inmate roll for Oslebshausen or for anyone held on a Bremen warrant. Ask the Freie Hansestadt's Justizvollzug, in the form it specifies. Hamburg's Auskunft service will not answer a Bremen file, and Lower Saxony's will not either, unless the person has actually been transferred and you are now asking about that Land's house. The defence lawyer in Bremen or Bremerhaven is the usual first source. Do not ring the gate and ask for a name check.

Use the prisoner number once you have it. Oslebshausen is not JVA Hamburg and not JVA Celle. A weekend remand may still be in police cells. If a later letter says Sehnde, Rosdorf or Fuhlsbüttel, the Bremen page is no longer the visit. Paid websites that offer a German national search are not the Hanseatic procedure. If the letter names Celle, Rosdorf or Fuhlsbüttel, leave this city-state page. Oslebshausen stays the Bremen address until that letter arrives. The port of Bremerhaven is not the JVA.

Visits and family practicalities

Book only with the permission Oslebshausen, or the receiving Land, actually issued. Remand visits can need the court. This guide does not invent a clock time for Bremen or Bremerhaven. Read the city's current notice before you travel from the port or from Hanover.

Identification is required, and phones stay outside. A Hamburg approval will not open the Bremen gate. If the person has moved to Lower Saxony, the Oslebshausen slot is void. Re-check the Anstalt the morning you leave Bremerhaven or the Hauptbahnhof.

Getting around Bremen

Bremen Airport and Bremen Hauptbahnhof are the city arrivals. Tram and bus reach Oslebshausen; it is not the station door. Bremerhaven families come south by regional train or the A27. Do not stop at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof because the ICE was convenient.

Parking in Oslebshausen's residential streets is limited. The Weser weather is a planning fact, not a slogan. Use the official street address. If the confirmed house is in Lower Saxony, change the ticket rather than hoping the cities share a visitors' room.

Prison guides in Bremen

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 Bremen.

No named prison article for Bremen yet. Use Berliner Justizvollzug — Zentrale Auskunftsstelle on the official site, then come back when we add the house.

Questions families actually ask

Is Bremen prison the same as Hamburg's?
No. JVA Bremen at Oslebshausen is a different city-state from Fuhlsbüttel or Billwerder. Auskunft for a Bremen file goes to Bremen, unless a transfer letter names another Land.
Can I search Oslebshausen inmates online?
No. The Freie Hansestadt does not publish a prisoner list. Ask the Land's Justizvollzug or the lawyer in Bremen or Bremerhaven.
Will a Bremerhaven case stay in the port?
Not necessarily. People are often held at Oslebshausen in the city of Bremen, and specialist places can move to Lower Saxony or Hamburg. Confirm the Anstalt first.

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 · MunichBavariaBayernBavaria 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.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 · 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 →