Germany · Stollberg
castle Hoheneck
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Background
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. The short film Broken: The Womenâs Prison at Hoheneck examines forced labour in Hoheneck Prison.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
Stollberg
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Jan Jaworski1920–2008
- Carl Theodor Rudolph1868–1947 · bookseller
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
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Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q530086)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). castle Hoheneck. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/castle-hoheneck
"castle Hoheneck." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/castle-hoheneck.
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