page_title: Kastellet, Copenhagen
section_title: Prison
hierarchical_section_title: Kastellet, Copenhagen / Buildings / Prison
caption_attribution_description: English: Denmark. Capital Region. Copenhagen
context_page_description: Kastellet, located in Copenhagen, Denmark, is one of the best preserved fortresses in Northern Europe. It is constructed in the form of a pentagon with bastions at its corners. Kastellet was continuous with the ring of bastioned ramparts which used to encircle Copenhagen but of which only the ramparts of Christianshavn remain today.
  A number of buildings are located within the grounds of Kastellet, including the Kastelskirken as well as a windmill. The area houses various military activities but it mainly serves as a public park and a historic site.
context_section_description: A prison complex was built on the rear side of the church in 1725. Eye holes in the wall between the church and the prison cells made it possible for the prisoners to follow the church services.
  Struensee awaited his execution in Kastellet's prison. The English explorer and pirate John Norcross was the person to be imprisoned at Kastellet for the most extensive period. He spent 32 years in the prison at Kastellet, 16 of the years in a wooden cage.
caption: The prison complex on the rear side of the church
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