Hoheneck
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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°ECoordinates: 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. 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 covers forced labor in Hoheneck.[2]
Literature
- Rengha Rodewill: Hoheneck – Das DDR-Frauenzuchthaus, Documentary exploration in photos with eyewitness accounts and a foreword by Katrin Göring-Eckardt. Vergangenheitsverlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86408-162-0
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References
- ↑ https://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/hoheneck-4758.html
- ↑ Broken: The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck, New York Times, op-docs, ALEXANDER LAHL and VOLKER SCHLECHT, 27 Jan 2017
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