Scherstetten

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '  N , 10 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	augsburg
Management Community :	Perennials
Height :	561 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.72 km 2
Residents:	1047 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	67 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86872
Area code :	08262
License plate :	A , SMÜ, WHO
Community key :	09 7 72 197
Community structure:	7 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Brunnenstrasse 8 86872 Scherstetten
Website :	www.scherstetten.de
Mayor :	Robert Wippel (Community / Free Citizens)
Location of the community of Scherstetten in the Augsburg district

View of the village of Scherstetten

Scherstetten is a municipality in the Swabian district of Augsburg and a member of the Stauden administrative community based in Langenneufnach .

geography

location

The community is located in the southwest of the Augsburg district in the middle of the perennials . The perennials form the main part of the Augsburg Western Forests Nature Park . The Schmutter flows east of Scherstetten and the Schweinbach to the west .

Landscapes and parts of the municipality

The municipality has 7 officially named municipality parts :

• Main town and parish village Scherstetten
  • Erkhausen village
  • Weiler Berghöfe
  • Bruderhof hamlet
  • Solitude Geiselhof
• Parish village Konradshofen
  • Hamlet Hilpoldsberg

history

Until the church is planted

The castle complex, which no longer exists, was owned by the Knights of Scherstetten, ministers of the Augsburg bishop , who had their seat here until 1370. In the Middle Ages, the Heilig-Geist-Spital Augsburg owned two thirds of the area of ​​the place, other parts belonged to the imperial monastery St. Ulrich and Afra . Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 the place belongs to Bavaria. In the course of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the community grew from 912 to 1,043 by 131 inhabitants or 14.4%.

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality of Konradshofen was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Scherstetten has been made up of twelve members since 2002. Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the mayor. The local elections on March 15, 2020 brought the following result:

• Free citizens Scherstetten: 8 seats (64.5%)
• Konradshofen community: 4 seats (35.5%).

The distribution of seats is unchanged from the 2014 to 2020 term of office.

mayor

Robert Wippel has been first mayor since May 2008; he was confirmed in office on March 15, 2020 with 90.9% for a further six years.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Scherstetten

Web links

Commons : Scherstetten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the coat of arms of Scherstetten  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Scherstetten: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.2 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Community Scherstetten in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 19, 2019.
3. ↑ Walter Pötzl: Church history and popular piety in "Der Landkreis Augsburg, Volume 5/1994", Ed .: Walter Pötzl, Augsburg 1994
4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 768 .