Jettingen-Scheppach
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Location of Jettingen-Scheppach
within Günzburg district | |
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Schwaben |
| District | Günzburg |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–26) | Christoph Böhm[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 54.12 km2 (20.90 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 470 m (1,540 ft) |
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| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 89343 |
| Dialling codes | 0 82 25 |
| Vehicle registration | GZ |
| Website | www.jettingen-scheppach.de |
Jettingen-Scheppach (German pronunciation: [ˈjɛtɪŋən ˈʃɛpax]) is a market town in the Günzburg Landkreis in the Schwaben (Swabia) Regierungsbezirk in Bavaria. It lies between Ulm and Augsburg. Its population as of 1 December 2005 was 7,044.
Politics
[edit | edit source]Jettingen-Scheppach's first mayor is Christoph Böhm, elected in March 2020.[1]
Municipality council
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All together, the municipality council (Gemeinderat) has 21 seats, which as of the last communal election on 16 March 2014 are distributed thus:
- CSU: 8 seats
- Free Independent Voter Municipality (FUW): 6 seats
- Young Citizens: 6 seats
Economy and infrastructure
[edit | edit source]Transport
[edit | edit source]Jettingen-Scheppach is conveniently located at the Burgau junction on Autobahn A 8 (Stuttgart-Munich section). The borough of Jettingen has a railway station on the line between Ulm and Augsburg. There are hourly regional trains to Ulm (travel time 38 minutes) and Augsburg (28 to 37 minutes), as well as trains every other hour to Munich (78 minutes).
Twinnings
[edit | edit source]The borough of Freihalden in Jettingen-Scheppach has been twinned with the French pilgrimage town of Ars-sur-Formans since 1976. Jettingen-Scheppach has also been twinned with the Hungarian municipality of Csolnok since 1992.
Personalities
[edit | edit source]People born in the town
[edit | edit source]- Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702–1762), composer and organist
- Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), Wehrmacht officer in the Second World War and member of the 20 July Plot
- Dominikus Böhm (1880–1955), architect
References
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