A place of remembrance for the victims of political criminal justice
Built between 1902 and 1907, the building was opened as the royal-Saxon district court and served as a court, prison and central execution site until 1956 during the National Socialist era, during the Soviet occupation and the GDR dictatorship.
In the courtyard of the building complex there was a sword-making machine that served the execution of capital punishments. In total, more than 1,300 people were killed here. About two-thirds of the victims came from the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, as the executions of the special courts of Prague and Brno were carried out here.
