Gerstetten

Gerstetten
Railway station
Coat of arms
Gerstetten
Location of Gerstetten within Heidenheim district
Coordinates: 48°37′21″N 10°1′14″E / 48.62250°N 10.02056°E / 48.62250; 10.02056Coordinates: 48°37′21″N 10°1′14″E / 48.62250°N 10.02056°E / 48.62250; 10.02056
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 (2015-12-31)[1]
• Total	11,664
• Density	130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
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

References

External links

• Official homepage (in German)