Memorial Path Station: Prison Bregenz Oberstadt

Between 1938 and 1945, approximately 6,000 people (including about 1,500 from Vorarlberg) were imprisoned in the Gefangenenhaus Bregenz-Oberstadt. Because the headquarters of the Gestapo was located in Bregenz, all Gestapo prisoners, who were often sent for interrogations or for transfer to other prisons, camps, and police stations, were held in the Gefangenenhaus Bregenz-Oberstadt. A wave of arrests in Vorarlberg occurred still in March 1938, when numerous influential and well-known opponents of the regime were arrested. The memorial plaque was initially installed in 1985 in the foyer of the building that is now located there, the Federal Monuments Office. In 2010, due to lack of visibility, it was mounted on the exterior façade. The site is part of a memorial trail, which since 2002 has commemorated resistance and persecution in Bregenz with several memorial plaques.