The best city hikes and walks around Trinkwassertalsperre Stollberg

Unfortunately, on Saturday at 1 PM, the restaurants were completely closed. So we had no choice but to go to the train station and take the next train. A shame, it's a nice little town.

a very nice view

St. Marien in Stollberg. Info: Was a hall church built in the 13th century (the "first" late Romanesque building), proven by later excavation, and was converted into a two-aisled hall church with a larger extension in the first half of the 15th century and adapted to the Gothic style at the same time. It has been a listed building since the 1970s and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary (also: Nativity of Mary).

Former women's prison Hoheneck, Hoheneck Memorial Site. Info: Former GDR penal institution that served as a notorious women's prison during GDR times. The building complex has national and international significance. It has architectural, landscape and urban design significance and is therefore a listed building. Today: a place of remembrance, commemoration and learning.

a very nice corner

Opening Hours Thursday-Sunday 11:30 AM - 6:00 PM We are also open on public holidays from 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM. Seasonal operation runs from April 15th to October 15th. www.walkbeachstollberg.de

The former hunting lodge was used as a remand prison and later as a penitentiary from the 17th century onwards, and the building was heavily fortified. After the founding of the GDR in 1949, Hoheneck became one of the largest women's prisons. Among the inmates were political prisoners; at times, the prison was overcrowded with 1,600 women, and isolation and solitary confinement were commonplace. Often, simply applying to leave the country was enough to become a "Hoheneck inmate." They worked on piecework, producing pantyhose and bed linens under appalling conditions, which were sold to well-known companies in the West. In the women's monotonous, grueling daily lives, it was only small signs that offered hope for the outside world, for freedom and a future. https://chemnitz2025.de/purple-path/leunora-salihu-bogen/

The Saxon Way of St. James passes by St. Mary's Church, as indicated by the sign in front of the church complex. In August 2025, a sculpture entitled "The Pilgrim," created by the Pfullendorf sculptor Peter Klink, was erected directly in front of St. Mary's Church. Donations from pilgrims and parishioners made its creation possible. The parish named the slender figure Marie. The parish newsletter describes the life-size wrought-iron figure as follows: "The pilgrim with the chains on the stele symbolizes the former women's prison Hoheneck, but also the shackles of our lives that can fall away during a pilgrimage. Furthermore, the pilgrim alludes to the venerable St. Mary's Church, from which she steps out and sets off on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marienkirche_(Stollberg)