Red Ox

Der Rote Ochse is a correctional facility in Halle, Am Kirchtor 20. The name has been traceable since the end of the 19th century, its origin is unclear. It is said to be due to the color of the masonry of the building.
After six years of construction, the Red Ox was put into operation in 1842 as the "Royal Prussian Penitentiary, Learning and Correctional Institute". On February 7, 1885, the anarchists August Reinsdorf and Emil Küchler were executed in the prison courtyard. On September 28, 1883, they had attempted to kill Kaiser Wilhelm I with the assassination attempt on the Niederwald monument in Rüdesheim. During the First World War, Werner Scholem, a soldier and later member of the Reichstag for the KPD, was imprisoned in Halle from February to August 1917 and sentenced to ten months in prison for participating in an anti-war demonstration in uniform in January 1917. He served the last weeks of his sentence in the Central Fortress Prison in Spandau.

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