Gerstetten

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Municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Gerstetten within Heidenheim district

(2018–26) Roland Polaschek^[1]Area

• Total92.43 km² (35.69 sq mi)Elevation

624 m (2,047 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total11,876 • Density130/km² (330/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

89547

Dialling codes07323, 07324 Dettingen/HeuchlingenVehicle registrationHDHWebsitewww.gerstetten.de

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

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: 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 pedagogue
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, war criminal, 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

^ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 12 September 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.