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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Baroque buildings in Thuringia, Castles in Thuringia, Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, Monasteries in Thuringia, Palaces in Thuringia, Wartburg, Mittelwerk, List of castles in Thuringia, Leipzig-Altenburg Airport, List of windmills in Thuringia, Hohnstein Castle, Sondershausen, Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Observation Post Alpha, Sondershausen Palace, Kyffhauser Monument, Vessra Abbey, Morassina, Optical Museum Jena, Reifenstein Abbey, Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld, Schloss Elisabethenburg, Gleichen, Hanstein Castle, Erfurt Airport, Ringberghaus, Ohrdruf Priory, Schloss Tiefurt, List of subcamps of Mittelbau, Reinhardsbrunn, Volkenroda Abbey, Steigerwaldstadion, Krayenburg, Schloss Belvedere, Weimar, Altenstein, Gutenberg-Gymnasium Erfurt, Karl Schwarzschild Observatory, Ehrenburg, Burg Liebenstein, Lindenau-Museum, Jena Observatory, Bach House, Rennsteig Tunnel, Priory of St. Wigbert, Naturkundemuseum Erfurt, Crossen Palace, Krayenberg, Sonneberg Observatory, Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes, Heidecksburg. Excerpt: Central Works (German: ) was a World War II factory that used Mittelbau-Dora forced labor in 2 main tunnels (1.6 km each) in the Kohnstein. The underground facility produced V-2 rockets, V-1 flying bombs, and other Nazi weapons. On 19 October 1943, the government Central Works Ltd (German: ) company was issued War Contract No. 0011-5565/43 by General Emil Leeb, head of the Army Weapons Office, for 12,000 A-4 missiles at 40,000 Reichsmarks each. Mittelwerk GmbH also headed sites for V-2 rocket development and testing at Schlier (Project Zement) and Lehesten. Beginning in May 1944, Georg Rickhey was the Mittelwerk general manager, Albin Sawatzki was the Mittelwerk technical director over both Arthur Rudolph's Technical Division (with deputy Karl Seidenstuecker) and Hans Lindenberg's 50 engineers of the quality control gro...