Gersthofen () is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares ...
in the
district of Augsburg, in
Bavaria,
Germany. It is situated on the west bank of the river
Lech, approx. north of
Augsburg
Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ...
.
Gersthofen is divided into five districts (
German: Stadtteile): Batzenhofen,
Edenbergen (with Gailenbach and Gailenbacher Mühle), Gersthofen, Hirblingen, and Rettenbergen (with Peterhof).
Mayors
*Josef Helmschrott (CSU): 1947-1952
*Georg Wendler (independent): 1952-1967
*Karl J. Weiß: (CSU): 1967-1984
*Siegfried Deffner (CSU): 1984-2008
*Jürgen Schantin (W.I.R., till 2013 CSU): 2008-2014
*since May 2014: Michael Wörle (independent)
Born in Gersthofen
*
Hans Erdmenger (1903-1943), marine officer in the second World War
* Michael Martin (born 1948), photographer, geographer and author
People related to Gersthofen
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Auguste Piccard
Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 – 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere. Piccard was also known for hi ...
(1884-1962), Swiss scientist, physicist and explorer. Piccard started off in 1931 near Gersthofen with his
Stratosphere
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balloon
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to a research flight into Higher Air Layers. During this flight he and his assistant Paul Kipfer first reached an altitude of 15,781 meters.
St. Emmeram Gersthofen.jpg, St. Emmeram chapel
Rathaus Gersthofen.JPG, Town hall of Gersthofen
Batzenhofen St. Martin 02.jpg, St. Martin Church in Batzenhofen
References
Augsburg (district)
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