Lehesten

Lehesten is a town in the Thuringian Forest, 20 km southeast of Saalfeld.

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]

References

1. ^ "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. 
2. ^ ^{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. 
3. ^ 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. 
4. ^ McGovern, J (1964). Crossbow and Overcast. New York: W. Morrow. p. 198. 
5. ^ Heike, Hasenaur (October 2008). "Space Pioneers" (pdf). United States Army. p. 6. http://www.army.mil/publications. Retrieved 2008-10-22.