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Gerstetten is a municipality in the district of Heidenheim in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
Gerstetten | |
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Location of Gerstetten within Heidenheim district | |
Coordinates: 48°37′21″N 10°1′14″E / 48.62250°N 10.02056°E | |
Country | Germany |
State | Baden-Württemberg |
Admin. region | Stuttgart |
District | Heidenheim |
Government | |
• Mayor (2018–26) | Roland Polaschek[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 92.43 km2 (35.69 sq mi) |
Elevation | 624 m (2,047 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 11,876 |
• Density | 130/km2 (330/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 89547 |
Dialling codes | 07323, 07324 Dettingen/Heuchlingen |
Vehicle registration | HDH |
Website | www.gerstetten.de |
It consists of the following villages:
- Gerstetten (population: 7,534)
- Dettingen (population: 2,042, incorporation 1972)
- Gussenstadt (population: 1,533, incorporation 1971)
- Heldenfingen (population: 1,052, incorporation 1971)
- Heuchlingen (population: 924, incorporation 1974)
- Heuchstetten (population: 137)
- and Sontbergen (population: 56, incorporation 1974).
The total population of the municipality is 12,009 (population figures as of September 2004).
Politics edit
The current mayor is Roland Polaschek.
Twin towns edit
Gerstetten has two twin towns: Cébazat, a small town near Clermont-Ferrand in France and Pilisvörösvár (German: Werischwar) in Hungary, about 20 km from Budapest.
- Cébazat (near Clermont-Ferrand), France (Auvergne) since June 27, 1992
- Pilisvörösvár, Hungary since May 5, 1996
Notable people edit
- 1578 Andreas Josua Ulsheimer, † ???, born in Gerstetten, doctor and world traveller
- 1831, 3. August, Christian Fink, † 4. September 1911 in Esslingen, born in Dettingen, musician, composer and pedagogue
- 1841, 10. March, Friedrich Fink, † 19. December 1896 in Stuttgart, born in Dettingen am Albuch, musician, composer
- 1896, 16. July, Gottlob Berger, † 5. January 1975 in Stuttgart, war criminal, SS-Obergruppenführer and Waffen-SS general
- 1906, 1. March, Heinrich Roth, † 7. July 1983 in Göttingen, psychologist
- 1931, 23. August, Günther Steeb, economist, member of Landtag
- 1933, 11. June, Walther Zügel, banker
- 1940, 21. July, Heide Gerstenberger, politics and economy scientist
- 1965, Johannes Zimmermann, theologian, professor in Greifswald
- 1971, Birgite Gebhardt, singer and music-cabaret-artist
References edit
- ^ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 12 September 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
External links edit
- Official website (in German)