Stollberg is a town in
Saxony, Germany, in the district
Erzgebirgskreis. It is situated 20 km east of
Zwickau and 17 km southwest of
Chemnitz
Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...
. It was the site of the
Hoheneck women's prison
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 Ger ...
until 2001.
References
Erzgebirgskreis
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