Wallerstein is a municipality and former principality in the district of

Donau-Ries Donau-Ries (''Danube-Ries'') is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Ansbach, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Eichstätt, Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Aichach-Friedberg, Au ...

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. It was first mentioned in 1238 as Steinheim. For generations ruled by the House of Oettingen-Wallerstein, in 1806 Wallerstein became part of the

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by the process of

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. The family still owns the Wallerstein Castle and its surrounding land.

Mayors

* 1972-2002: Manfred Schürer *since 2002: Joseph Mayer

Culture and Sights

* Castle Wallerstein * Castle rock * Old Jewish burial ground * One of only three German

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Gallery

Wallerstein, die Pestsäule DmD-7-79-224-7 en die katholische Pfarrkirche Sankt Alban DmD-7-79-224-1 foto5 2016-08-04 09.39.jpg, Wallerstein, monument (die Pestsäule) and Catholic Parish Church of

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File:St. Oswald Kirche Ehringen - panoramio.jpg, St. Oswald Church

Notable inhabitants

Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller Rabbi Gershon Shaul Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller (c. 157919 August 1654), was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the ''Tosefet Yom-Tov'' (1614–1617). Heller was one of the major ...

(1579-1654), born in Wallerstein and later Rabbi of Prague, Nemirow and Krakow. He published a three-volume

Mishnah The Mishnah or the Mishna (; he, מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition", from the verb ''shanah'' , or "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions which is known as the Oral Tor ...

commentary which is studied to this day. *

Louis of Oettingen-Wallerstein Louis Kraft Ernest, Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein (''German'' Ludwig Kraft Ernst Karl Fürst zu Öttingen-Öttingen und Öttingen-Wallerstein) (31 January 1791 – 22 June 1870) was a Bavarian statesman and German Prince of the House of Oettinge ...

(1791-1870), Bavarian statesman and prince * William Berczy (1744-1813), painter, colonist and architect, co-founder of Toronto *

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* Bernhard Mettenleiter (1822-1901), organist and composer

References

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