(born 1956), politician (CDU) and Lord mayor of Heidenheim since 2000 Michael Knoll (1805–1852), railway engineer, Oberbaurat, builder of the Geislinger Steige :de:Johannes Nisle (1735–1788), Horn player and composer Martina Schumacher (born 1972), painter and conceptual artist Partnership Geislingen is twin town of: Bischofswerda, Saxony Montceau-les-Mines, France Geislingen has been twinned with Bischofswerda in Saxony since 1990 and with Montceau-les-Mines in France since 1993. Since 1971 there has been a school exchange between the two towns, which is considered the basis for the town twinning. City structure Geislingen's urban area consists of the core city, which also includes the community of Altenstadt (historically the city's predecessor settlement), which was incorporated in 1912 and has since grown completely into the city center, and the communities of Aufhausen, Eybach, Stötten, Türkheim, Waldhausen and Weiler ob Helfenstein, which were incorporated as part of the territorial reform of the 1970s and are now referred to as municipal districts. Each of these boroughs is also a locality within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg Municipal Code, i.e. they have a local council whose members are elected by those entitled to vote in the locality at each local election. The chairman of the local council is the head of the village. The number of local councillors ranges from seven to eleven, depending on the size of the locality. Some parts of the town include further partly spatially separated residential districts or residential places with their own names. The Wannenhöfe belong to Aufhausen, Christofshof, Oßmannsweiler and Untere Roggenmühle with the Burgstall of Roggenstein Castle to Eybach, Wittingen to Türkheim and Battenau, Hofstett am Steig and Lindenhof to Weiler ob Helfenstein. In the core town, in addition to Altenstadt, further residential areas with their own names are distinguished, whose designations have arisen in the course of development, but whose boundaries are usually not fixed. Traffic The town lies on the B 10 (Lebach-Augsburg) and B 466 (to Mühlhausen im Täle) federal highways. Geislingen is located on the Filstalbahn from Stuttgart to Ulm, which was opened in 1847. Geislingen (Steige) station is served hourly by regional train and regional express trains to Stuttgart, Plochingen and Ulm. In addition to the Geislingen station, which is called the main station in bus transport, there is also the Geislingen West station. From 1903 to 1981, Geislingen was the starting point of the Tälesbahn, a branch line to Wiesensteig. The Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen built