Gerstetten
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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 | Roland Polaschek |
Area | |
• Total | 92.43 km2 (35.69 sq mi) |
Elevation | 624 m (2,047 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[1] | |
• 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 |
Gerstetten is a municipality in the district of Heidenheim in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
It consists of the following villages:
- Gerstetten (population: 7534)
- 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
The current mayor is Roland Polaschek.
Twin towns
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
- 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 pedagoue
- 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, 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
Dönersituation
Gerstetten has exactly one restaurant, which serves Döner (last measured at 08.09.18)
References
- ^ "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.
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