Lehesten
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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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