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Country
  
Germany

Admin. region
  
Stuttgart

Elevation
  
624 m (2,047 ft)

Area
  
92.43 km²

Local time
  
Monday 6:19 AM

Dialling code
  
7323

State
  
Baden-Württemberg

District
  
Heidenheim

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Population
  
11,820 (31 Dec 2008)

Postal code
  
89547

Administrative region
  
Stuttgart

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Weather
  
-2°C, Wind E at 11 km/h, 85% Humidity

Gerstetten is a municipality in the district of Heidenheim in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

Contents

Map of Gerstetten, 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

    Gerstetten Wikipedia
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