Gerstetten () is a municipality in the district of Heidenheim in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
It consists of the following villages:
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center">
! Name !! Population !! Incorporated
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| Gerstetten || 7,534 ||
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| Dettingen || 2,042|| 1972
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| Gussenstadt || 1,533|| 1971
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| Heldenfingen || 1,052|| 1971
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| Heuchlingen || 924|| 1974
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| Heuchstetten || 137 ||
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| Sontbergen || 56 || 1974
|}The total population of the municipality is 11,551 ().
Politics
The current mayor is Matthias Heisler.
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