Sit storiku
Studentenkarzer
27 persuna tal-post jissuġġeruh,
Lokalità
2 Augustinergasse
Heidelberg, BW
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Mark Twain on his travel trough Europe spent sometime in Heidelberg writing his famous Huckelberry Finn, name inspired in the very city of Heidelberg and has a passage on the Students Jail in Heidelberg.
The Studentenkarzer (students' prison) is located at the back of the Old University in Augustinergasse. From 1778 until 1914, students were imprisoned here for so called "Kavaliersdelikte" (meaning minor transgressions which were kind of fashionable among otherwise honorable gentlemen inscribed at the Heidelberg University, most of them being members of student fraternities).
The Studentenkarzer (students' prison) is located at the back of the Old University in Augustinergasse. From 1778 until 1914, students were imprisoned here for so called "Kavaliersdelikte" (meaning minor transgressions which were kind of fashionable among otherwise honorable gentlemen inscribed at t…
Unique prison for students which was in use from the medieval period up until the late 1800's.