Gerstetten

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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

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.

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).

The current mayor is Roland Polaschek.

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

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

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