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 External links Heidenheim (district)