Stock Photo - 11 August 2022, Saxony, Stollberg: Thomas Schmidt (CDU, r.), Saxony's Minister of State for Regional Development, and Marcel Schmidt (Freie Wähler), Mayor of Stollberg, talk in the cell wing of Hoheneck Castle in Stollberg. This was once home to the largest women's prison in the GDR. A memorial to the former women's prison is to be opened here in 2023. The cost of the current plans is estimated at 27 million euros, of which almost 19 million euros will come from urban development funding. The town of Stollberg, which has a population of around 11,500 and is located on highway 72, has a number of examples of how millions of euros in federal and state funding have been used to create new buildings or renovate old ones, which are now being put to new uses. Since the beginning of the 1990s, around 6.2 billion euros from the federal and state governments have flowed into Saxony's cities for urban redevelopment. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa. - Stollberg/Saxony/Germany