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castle Hoheneck

Stollberg, Italy

castle Hoheneck

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, h

owever, as many as 1,600 were detained there. The short film Broken: The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck examines forced labour in Hoheneck Prison.

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