Lehesten | |
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) Coat of arms | |
Location of Lehesten within Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district ) | |
)  Lehesten ) Lehesten | |
| Coordinates: 50°28′32″N 11°26′53″E / 50.47556°N 11.44806°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Thuringia |
| District | Saalfeld-Rudolstadt |
| Municipal assoc. | Schiefergebirge |
| Subdivisions | 3 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Helmut Färber (SPD) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 35.96 km2 (13.88 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 640 m (2,100 ft) |
| Population (2019-12-31)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,672 |
| • Density | 46/km2 (120/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 07349 |
| Dialling codes | 036653 |
| Vehicle registration | SLF |
| Website | www.lehesten.de |
Lehesten is a town in the Thuringian Forest, 20 km southeast of Saalfeld.
World War II V-2 facility
After an August 1944 [1] explosion at the Redl-Zipf V-2 liquid oxygen plant at Schlier stopped production, the third V-2 liquid oxygen plant (5000 tons/month)[2] was built at a slate quarry at Lehesten at the Thuringia-Bavarian border[3] near Nordhausen (acceptance testing of combustion chamber was also performed at the Lehesten plant).[2] Dr Martin Schilling (the head of testing at Peenemünde)[4] located the Lehesten site,[2] and 400 engineers were moved from Peenemünde to Lehesten, which eventually had 16 liquid oxygen production plants.[5]
References
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- ^ a b c Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979). The Rocket Team. Apogee Books Space Series 36. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. p. 99. ISBN 1-894959-00-0.
- ^ Neufeld, Michael J (1995). The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: The Free Press. p. 207.
- ^ McGovern, J (1964). Crossbow and Overcast. New York: W. Morrow. p. 198.
- ^ Heike, Hasenaur (October 2008). "Space Pioneers" (pdf). United States Army. p. 6. Retrieved 2008-10-22.