Gerstetten is a municipality in the district of Heidenheim in

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in southern

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. It consists of the following villages: * Gerstetten (population: 7,534) * 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:

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, a small town near

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and

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(German: Werischwar) in

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, about 20 km from

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. *

(near

(

Auvergne Auvergne (; ; oc, label= Occitan, Auvèrnhe or ) is a former administrative region in central France, comprising the four departments of Allier, Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal and Haute-Loire. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Au ...

) since June 27, 1992 *

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 pedagogue *1841, 10. March, Friedrich Fink, † 19. December 1896 in Stuttgart, born in Dettingen am Albuch, musician, composer *1896, 16. July,

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, † 5. January 1975 in Stuttgart, war criminal, SS-Obergruppenführer and Waffen-SS general *1906, 1. March, Heinrich Roth, † 7. July 1983 in

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, 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 Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rosto ...

*1971, Birgite Gebhardt, singer and music-cabaret-artist

References

External links

* Heidenheim (district) {{Heidenheim-geo-stub