Hohenstadt is a municipality in the Göppingen district of

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History

Hohenstadt was sold in 1483 by the County of Helfenstein to the Lords of Westerstetten, who would in 1485 cede half of the township to the

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. The Helfensteins resumed control of the ceded half in 1586, but when they went extinct in 1627, it reverted to the sovereignty of the now

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. Hohenstadt only fully came under Württemberg's control when in 1806 the Lordship of Wiesensteig, which controlled the town at that time, was

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to Württemberg, now a Kingdom. The town was assigned to , after 1938 Landkreis Göppingen, its contemporary incarnation. Hohenstadt began a period of

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after

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that ended in the 1960s.

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Hohenstadt is situated in

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Göppingen Göppingen (; or ) is a town in southern Germany, part of the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg. It is the capital of the Goeppingen (district), district Göppingen. Göppingen is home to the toy company Märklin, and it is the birthplace ...

, of the

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. Hohenstadt lies at the southernmost tip of Göppingen's district, along its border with the Alb-Danube district. The municipal area is physically located in the . Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of

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(NN), the highest elevation above sea level in the Administrative Region of Stuttgart, to a low of NN.

Politics

Hohenstadt has one borough (''Ortsteil''), Hohenstadt, and one village, Weilerhöhe. There are three

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in the municipal area: Feuerbach, Heudorf, and Waldstetten. Hohenstadt is a member of the Oberes Filstal municipal association, headquartered in Wiesensteig.

Coat of arms

Hohenstadt's

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displays a

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elephant head behind a white castle wall upon a

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. The elephant is a reference to the House of Helfenstein, whose arms feature one, while the castle wall is to distinguish Hohenstadt's

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from those of other municipalities. The coat of arms was created and accepted by the municipal council in 1948. It was approved by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, and a corresponding municipal flag issued, on 19 March 1960.

Transportation

Hohenstadt is connected to Germany's network of roadways by an access road from its local ''

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n'' und ''

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n'' to the

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. Local public transportation is provided by the .

References

External links

* (in German) {{Authority control Göppingen (district)