Lehesten

Lehesten
Lehesten
Town
	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 (2021–27)	Nicole Vockeroth
Area
• Total	35.96 km2 (13.88 sq mi)
Elevation	640 m (2,100 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	1,614
• Density	45/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 explosion at the Redl-Zipf V-2 liquid oxygen plant at Schlier stopped production, the third V-2 liquid oxygen plant (5000 tons/month)^[3] was built at a slate quarry at Lehesten at the Thuringia-Bavarian border^[4] near Nordhausen (acceptance testing of combustion chamber was also performed at the Lehesten plant).^[3] Dr Martin Schilling (the head of testing at Peenemünde)^[5] located the Lehesten site,^[3] and 400 engineers were moved from Peenemünde to Lehesten, which eventually had 16 liquid oxygen production plants.^[6]

References

^ Gewählte Bürgermeister - aktuelle Landesübersicht, Freistaat Thüringen, accessed 10 November 2022.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden, erfüllenden Gemeinden und Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Thüringen Gebietsstand: 31.12.2022" (in German). Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. June 2023.
^ ^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. ISBN 978-0-02-922895-1.
^ 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.

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[1] Gewählte Bürgermeister - aktuelle Landesübersicht, Freistaat Thüringen, accessed 10 November 2022.

[2] "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden, erfüllenden Gemeinden und Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Thüringen Gebietsstand: 31.12.2022" (in German). Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik. June 2023.

[Ordway-3] 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-4] 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. ISBN 978-0-02-922895-1.

[McGovern-5] McGovern, J (1964). Crossbow and Overcast. New York: W. Morrow. p. 198.

[6] Heike, Hasenaur (October 2008). "Space Pioneers" (pdf). United States Army. p. 6. Retrieved 2008-10-22.

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