Prison Stollberg / Hoheneck »burden or opportunity

Castle Hoheneck has been located in private ownership since June 2003. The prison is beset with a wall of about 420 m length. The castle Hoheneck was originally known under the name Staleburg.

1473 Bishop Dietrich IV of Schönburg and his two nephews  Caspar and Heinrich  bought the domination Stollberg. 1564 the castle was sold to the Saxon Elector August I. for 74,222 gulden. He used it as hunting lodge.

During the following years the castle was often destroyed. With the year 1862 the castle was used as prison first for men, later only for women. In February 1950 1119 women with 25 children came from the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen to Hoheneck. Until 1989 also women, who opposed the dictatorship of the DDR were arrested here. In the fifties, the prisoners worked in the nursery, the sewing room, the carpentry, the pig fattening or as cleaning staff. From the sixties the arrested women had to work in local factories - mainly in hosiery industry. In autumn  1989 there were work refusals and hunger strike for improvements in prison conditions. From 1994 until May 2001 the prison was for arrested men and women.

Tours

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Political imprisonment in Hoheneck - women as a political prisoner

Permanent exhibition in the town library to the opening times:

Monday 10.00 - 12.00 clock and 14.00 - 17.00 clock
Tuesday 12.00 - 18.00 clock
Wednesday closed
Thursday 12.00 - 18.00 clock
Friday 10.00 - 12.00 clock
Saturday 09.00 - 12.00 clock