German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is set to inaugurate a new memorial site on Thursday commemorating those incarcerated in the notorious Hoheneck women’s prison in the former communist East Germany. Many of the inmates of the former women’s prison in Stollberg, some 80 kilometres south-west of Dresden, were political prisoners. Joined by eyewitnesses of that era, Steinmeier will visit the historic cell block and a newly established permanent exhibition. He is scheduled to deliver a speech afterwards. The former castle grounds were used as a prison from 1864. In 1950, the facility was tu…