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A great shot with fine composition and sinister tones.  A prison?

 

Paul

 

Thanks Paul.

 

yes, the tower is part of a very old fortress mainly used for political prisoners because of their democratic opinions.

After being released some emigrated to the United States.

 

"Further inmates in Fort Hohenasperg included the writer Berthold Auerbach, who was kept here between 1837 and 1838, Friedrich Kammerer (1833), the doctor and poet Theobald Kerner (1850–1851), the theologian Karl Hase, the satirist Johannes Nefflen, the poet Leo von Seckendorff, the writer Theodor Griesinger and many more, most political dissidents, who, in general were held prisoner because of their anti monarchistic views."

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"The use of the fortress as a prison is responsible for the fact that Hohenasperg is jokingly referred to as "Württemberg's highest mountain" as they say "it takes only five minutes to come to the top, but years to come back down again."

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"The prison ... now also houses the central hospital of the prison service in Baden-Württemberg. In this capacity, it held Peter Graf, father of the tennis-player Steffi Graf, in 1995. The serial killer, Heinrich Pommerenke, died in Hohenasperg in the central hospital on 27 December 2008."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohenasperg

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