Lehesten
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Location of Lehesten within Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district  | |
  Lehesten Show map of Germany  Lehesten Show map of Thuringia | |
| Coordinates: 50°28′32″N 11°26′53″E / 50.47556°N 11.44806°E / 50.47556; 11.44806 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Thuringia |
| District | Saalfeld-Rudolstadt |
| Municipal assoc. | Schiefergebirge |
| Subdivisions | 3 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2021–27) | Nicole Vockeroth[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 35.96 km2 (13.88 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 640 m (2,100 ft) |
| Population
(2022-12-31)[2]
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| • Total | 1,614 |
| • Density | 45/km2 (120/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes |
07349
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| Dialling codes | 036653 |
| Vehicle registration | SLF |
| Website | www.lehesten.de |
Lehesten is a town in the Thuringian Forest, 20 km southeast of Saalfeld.
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]
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