You don't have to be a criminal to enter a prison in the German city of Forstenau. Those who want to spend their night in a former prison in this northwestern German city can do it for 45 euros ($ 50) per night. € 37 in case of extended stay.

The small cells do not look luxurious, but this does not discourage visitors from attending, and since the opening of the hotel in May 2019, the quality of visitors has included amateurs wandering between the highlands and members of bowling clubs, and even a couple as well as spend the wedding night, the hotel has hosted 140 guests since the beginning of October 2019.

"This demand for the hotel was made without any kind of propaganda," says Werner Brize, head of a local working group for the care of the city's monuments and historical aspects.

"Most visitors wear these jackets," says Guenter Schopenhauer, another member of the local group.

The group intends to offer visitors the option of transporting them from the train station to the hotel, bound by shackles on a horse-drawn carriage, and is considering the possibility of setting up a medieval column of torture inside the hotel to link and punish criminals.

The Forstenau Prison was built in 1720 and included many inmates who were sentenced to prison, including a murderer and a horse robber who was executed in Forstenau in 1883, according to Schopenhauer.

Six cells were turned into guest rooms, and two cells were left in their original condition so that tourists could watch them during sightseeing tours, Bryz says, one of which was the prisoner's killer cell before his execution, and the other was a shower.

However, even in the renovated cells, it is easy to realize that life inside a prison was not a cellular journey for its inmates in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was surrounded by strong walls of 90 centimeters thick, with only a tiny fraction of daylight entering it. Lacking heating, it also had thick wooden doors to prevent prisoners from escaping.

Bryce explains that the prison has 27 popes and proudly says that "no one escaped from the prisoners."

One of the phenomena introduced in Germany in recent years is the establishment of a variety of exotic and exotic hotels, and there is a world full of these wonderful and wonderful options, including a hotel rooms in what is like a barn furnished with straw, and another with beds in the form of sausages, which are served in several different dishes at breakfast, in the village The small Ritterbach is near the city of Nuremberg.