Piesau is a municipality in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt

Saalfeld-Rudolstadt

Saalfeld-Rudolstadt is a Kreis in the south of Thuringia, Germany. Neighboring districts are the districts Weimarer Land, Saale-Holzland, Saale-Orla, the district Kronach in Bavaria, and the districts Sonneberg, Hildburghausen and Ilm-Kreis.-History:The district dates back to the Landratsamt...

, in Thuringia

Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 close to the Thuringian Rennsteig

Rennsteig

The Rennsteig is a ridge walk as well as an historical boundary path in the Thuringian Forest, Thuringian Highland and Franconian Forest in central Germany....

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It has a glass-factory and is known as glass-maker-village. The first time glass was made in Piesau was in 1622. Up until today glass is the main reason of existence in Piesau. Carl Heinz Glass stil produces glass, for instance for the cosmetic-industrie. The inventor of the first usable röntgenglass (Carl Heinrich Florenz Müller) decents from the village.
Piesau lies next to the "Rennsteig", a hikingpath of more than 160 kilometres throughout Thüringen.

It belongs to the municipal association

Municipal association

Municipal associations are statutory corporations or public bodies created by statute in the German federal states of Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia. In Baden-Württemberg and Schleswig-Holstein the term stipulated municipal association is used....

 Lichtetal am Rennsteig

Lichtetal am Rennsteig

Lichtetal am Rennsteig is a municipal association in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, Germany. The seat of government is in Lichte...

, which consists of the municipalities Lichte

Lichte

thumb|220px|Wallendorfer Porcelain Manufacture, Oct. 2006thumb|220px|[[Leibis-Lichte Dam]], 102.5 m highLichte is a municipality in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia, Germany, close to the Thuringian Rennsteig.- Geography :...

, Piesau, Reichmannsdorf

Reichmannsdorf

Reichmannsdorf is a municipality in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, Germany.It belongs to the municipal association Lichtetal am Rennsteig, which consists of the municipalities Lichte, Piesau, Reichmannsdorf, and Schmiedefeld.-References:...

, and Schmiedefeld

Schmiedefeld

Schmiedefeld is a municipality in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, Germany close to the Thuringian Rennsteig....

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