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Location | Stollberg, Saxony, Germany |
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Coordinates | 50°42′17″N 12°47′3″E / 50.70472°N 12.78417°E |
Status | Closed |
Security class | Maximum |
Opened | 1862 |
Closed | 2001 |
Managed by | City of Stollberg |
Hoheneck Women's Prison (German: Frauengefängnis Hoheneck) was a women's correctional facility in operation between 1862 and 2001 in Stollberg, Germany. It became most notable as a detention facility for female political prisoners in East Germany. The prison was designed to hold up to 600 inmates, however, as many as 1,600 were detained there.[1]
The short film Broken: The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck examines forced labour in Hoheneck Prison.[2]