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Country
  
Germany

Admin. region
  
Schwaben

Elevation
  
470 m (1,540 ft)

Area
  
54.07 km²

Population
  
6,684 (31 Dec 2008)

Administrative region
  
Swabia

State
  
Bavaria

District
  
Günzburg

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Local time
  
Saturday 10:23 AM

Postal code
  
89343

Jettingen-Scheppach

Weather
  
4°C, Wind E at 8 km/h, 74% Humidity

Jettingen-Scheppach is a market community in the Günzburg Landkreis in the Schwaben (Swabia) Regierungsbezirk in Bavaria. It lies between Ulm and Augsburg. Its population as of 1 December 2005 was 7,044.

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Map of Jettingen-Scheppach, Germany

Community council

Jettingen-Scheppach's first mayor is Hans Reichhart (CSU). All together, the community council (Gemeinderat) has 21 seats, which as of the last communal election on 16 March 2014 are distributed thus:

  • CSU: 8 seats
  • Free Independent Voter Community (FUW): 6 seats
  • Young Citizens: 6 seats
  • Transport

    Jettingen-Scheppach is conveniently located at the Burgau junction on Autobahn A 8 (Stuttgart-Munich section). The borough of Jettingen has a railway station on the line between Ulm and Augsburg. There are hourly regional trains to Ulm (travel time 38 minutes) and Augsburg (28 to 37 minutes), as well as trains every other hour to Munich (78 minutes).

    Twinnings

    The borough of Freihalden in Jettingen-Scheppach has been twinned with the French pilgrimage town of Ars-sur-Formans since 1976. Jettingen-Scheppach has also been twinned with the Hungarian community of Csolnok since 1992.

    People born in the town

  • Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702-1762), composer and organist.
  • Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907-1944) – Resistance fighter in the Second World War, and member of the 20 July Plot.
  • References

    Jettingen-Scheppach Wikipedia