Gerstetten Knowpia

Gerstetten
Gerstetten
Municipality
	Railway station
	Coat of arms
	Location of Gerstetten within Heidenheim district
	Gerstetten Gerstetten
	Coordinates: 48°37′21″N 10°1′14″E / 48.62250°N 10.02056°E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Stuttgart
District	Heidenheim
Government
• Mayor (2018–26)	Roland Polaschek
Area
• Total	92.43 km2 (35.69 sq mi)
Elevation	624 m (2,047 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	11,876
• Density	130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	89547
Dialling codes	07323, 07324 Dettingen/Heuchlingen
Vehicle registration	HDH
Website	www.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 edit

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.

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

^ 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.