Lehesten
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For Lehesten in the district Saale-Holzland, see Lehesten, Saale-Holzland.
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Location of the die stadt of Lehesten within Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district
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| Coordinates | 50°28′32″N 11°26′53″E / 50.47556°N 11.44806°ECoordinates: 50°28′32″N 11°26′53″E / 50.47556°N 11.44806°E |
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Thuringia |
| District | Saalfeld-Rudolstadt |
| Municipal assoc. | Probstzella-Lehesten-Marktgölitz |
| DIE Stadt subdivisions | 3 |
| Mayor | Helmut Färber (SPD) |
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| Area | 35.96 km2 (13.88 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 640 m (2100 ft) |
| Population | 1,908 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 53 /km2 (137 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | SLF |
| Postal code | 07349 |
| Area code | 036653 |
| Website | www.lehesten.de |
Lehesten is a town in the Thuringian Forest, 20 km southeast of Saalfeld.
[edit] WWII 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]
[edit] References
- ^ "Bevölkerung nach Gemeinden, erfüllenden Gemeinden und Verwaltungsgemeinschaften" (in German). Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. 27 June 2011. http://www.statistik.thueringen.de/datenbank/TabAnzeige.asp?tabelle=gg000102%7C%7C.
- ^ a b c Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979). The Rocket Team. Apogee Books Space Series 36. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. ISBN 1894959000.
- ^ 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. http://www.army.mil/publications. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
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