List of communities in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district

Map of the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen

The list of municipalities in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district gives an overview of the 27 smallest administrative units in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district . It consists of 27 parishes , four of which are small towns and a further six are rural towns . In 1939 the district offices of Weißenburg and Gunzenhausen became independent counties. As part of the regional reform in Bavaria in 1972, the district of Weißenburg in Bavaria , the district of Gunzenhausen and the previously independent city of Weißenburg in Bavaria were merged into a new district, which from 1973 was called the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen.

description

The district can be further divided into five administrative communities :

• VG Altmühltal : with the communities of Alesheim , Dittenheim , and Meinheim , as well as the Markt Markt Berolzheim ;
• VG Ellingen : with the city of Ellingen and the communities Ettenstatt and Höttingen ;
• VG Gunzenhausen : with the market Absberg and the communities Haundorf , Pfofeld and Theilenhofen ;
• Administrative community Hahnenkamm : with the markets Gnotzheim and Heidenheim , as well as the community Westheim ;

• VG Nennslingen : with the market in Nennslingen and the communities of Burgsalach , Raitenbuch and Bergen ;

The cities of Weißenburg in Bavaria , Gunzenhausen , Treuchtlingen and Pappenheim , like the Markt Pleinfeld and the communities of Polsingen , Muhr am See , Solnhofen and Langenaltheim, are not members of an administrative community.

The district has a total area of ​​970.83 km ² . The city of Treuchtlingen has the largest area within the district with 103 km ² . This is followed by the city of Weißenburg in Bavaria with 97.55 km ² and the city of Gunzenhausen with 82.73 km ² . Another four municipalities have an area of ​​over 50 km ² . Four municipalities have an area larger than 30 km ² and six municipalities are over 20 km ² . 10 municipalities cover an area of ​​over 10 km ² . No municipality will go below the 10 km ² mark. The smallest area has the municipalities of Solnhofen with 13.5 km ² , Gnotzheim with 12.48 km ² and Muhr am See with 10.95 km ² .

The major district town of Weißenburg with 18,645 inhabitants has the largest share of the population of the district of 94,734 inhabitants , followed by the cities Gunzenhausen with 16,616 and Treuchtlingen with 12,952 inhabitants. The Pleinfeld market has a population of 7556. Two municipalities have over 3,000 and four municipalities over 2,000 inhabitants. 13 municipalities have more than 1,000 inhabitants, four have less than 1,000 inhabitants. Gnotzheim with 824 inhabitants, Meinheim with 841 inhabitants and Ettenstatt with 836 inhabitants have the fewest inhabitants.

The entire district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen has a population density of 95 inhabitants per km ² , which is well below the Bavarian average of 178 inhabitants per km ² and below the German average of 229 inhabitants per km ² . The municipality of Muhr am See has the highest population density within the district with 204 inhabitants per km ² . The cities of Gunzenhausen and Weißenburg have more than 150 inhabitants per km ² , while Ellingen, Pleinfeld, Treuchtlingen and Solnhofen have a population density of more than 100 inhabitants per km ² . 16 municipalities have a population density of more than 50, four municipalities have fewer than 50 inhabitants per km ² . Raitenbuch has the lowest density with 30 inhabitants per km ² .

Legend

• Municipality : Name of the municipality or city and information about the district to which the eponymous place of the municipality belonged before the regional reform
• Subsites : Enumerated are the formerly independent municipalities of the administrative unit. The year of incorporation is also given. This is also noted for the suburbs that belonged to a different district than the main town of today's municipality before the regional reform
• VG : Indicates membership in one of the five administrative communities
• Coat of arms : coat of arms of the municipality or city
• Map : Shows the location of the municipality or city in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
• Area : Area of ​​the city or municipality, given in square kilometers
• Population : number of people living in the municipality or city (as of December 31, 2019)
• Population density : The population density is given, calculated on the area of ​​the administrative unit, given in population per km ² (as of December 31, 2019)
• Altitude : Altitude of the eponymous town or town in meters above sea ​​level
• Image : Image from the respective municipality or city

Communities

local community	Sub-locations	VG	coat of arms	map	surface	Residents	EW density	height	image
Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district					970.83	94,734	98	approx. 355 (near Mackenmühle ) to 656.4 (summit of the Dürrenberg near Heidenheim)
Markt Absberg (belonged to the district of Gunzenhausen before the regional reform)	Absberg Kalbensteinberg (1978) Igelsbach (1978)	VG Gunzenhausen			18.99	1,382	73	467
Alesheim (belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria before the regional reform)	Alesheim Trommetsheim (1978) Wachenhofen Störzelbach	VG Altmühltal			20.45	956	47	427
Bergen (belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria before the regional reform)	Bergen Geyern Kaltenbuch Thalmannsfeld	VG Nennslingen			19.91	1,139	57	539
Burgsalach (belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria before the regional reform)	Burgsalsch Indernbuch Pfraunfeld	VG Nennslingen			19.31	1,156	60	583
Dittenheim (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform)	Dittenheim Sammenheim Sausenhofen Windsfeld	VG Altmühltal			29.34	1,815	62	437
City of Ellingen (before the regional reform it belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria)	Ellingen Dorsbrunn (partly - other part belongs to the market Pleinfeld today) Massenbach (1978) Stopfenheim (1972)	VG Ellingen			31.25	3,851	123	395
Ettenstatt (belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria before the regional reform)	Ettenstatt Reuth under Neuhaus (1973) Hundsdorf (1978)	VG Ellingen			15.84	836	53	440
Markt Gnotzheim (belonged to the district of Gunzenhausen before the regional reform)	Gnotzheim Spielberg	VG Hahnenkamm			12.48	824	66	473
City of Gunzenhausen (belonged to the district of Gunzenhausen before the regional reform)	Gunzenhausen Cronheim Aha (1978) Frickenfelden Pflaumfeld (1971) Laubenzedel (1972) Nordstetten (1971) Oberasbach Stetten Unterwurmbach (1971) Wald (1971)				82.73	16,616	196	416
Haundorf (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform)	Haundorf Obererlbach Graefensteinberg (1972) Eichenberg (1972)	VG Gunzenhausen			51.34	2,686	52	445
Markt Heidenheim (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform)	Heidenheim Degersheim Hechlingen am See (1977) Hohentrüdingen	VG Hahnenkamm			52.29	2,564	49	529
Höttingen (belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria before the regional reform)	Höttingen Weiboldshausen (1978; partly - other part today belongs to the city of Weißenburg in Bavaria) Fiegenstall (1978)	VG Ellingen			19.26	1,074	56	430
Langenaltheim (belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria before the regional reform)	Langenaltheim Büttelbronn Rehlingen				39.05	2,200	56	555
Markt Markt Berolzheim (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform)	Berolzheim market	VG Altmühltal			14.52	1,281	88	424
Meinheim (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform)	Meinheim Wolfsbronn Kurzenaltheim	VG Altmühltal			16.36	841	51	433
Muhr am See (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform)	Muhr am See (The village of Muhr was created by the union of the municipalities Altenmuhr and Neuenmuhr in 1976)				10.95	2,338	214	417
Markt Nennslingen (belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria before the regional reform)	Nennslingen Biburg Gersdorf Wengen	VG Nennslingen			21.97	1,396	64	523
City of Pappenheim (before the regional reform it belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria)	Pappenheim Bieswang (1978) Geislohe Göhren Neudorf Ochsenhart Osterdorf Übermatzhofen rooms				64.32	4,039	63	405
Pfofeld (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform)	Pfofeld Thannhausen (partly - other part is now part of the Pleinfeld market)	VG Gunzenhausen			23.88	1,529	64	446
Markt Pleinfeld (belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria before the regional reform)	Pleinfeld Ramsberg am Brombachsee (1978) Mischelbach (1972) Stirn Walting St. Veit Dorsbrunn (partly - other part today belongs to the city of Ellingen) Allmannsdorf Thannhausen (partly - other part today belongs to the municipality of Pfofeld)				72.22	7,556	105	382
Polsingen (belonged to the district of Gunzenhausen before the regional reform)	Polsingen Trendel (1978) Doeckingen Ursheim				33.87	1,827	54	443
Raitenbuch (belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria before the regional reform)	Raitenbuch Bechthal Reuth am Wald	VG Nennslingen			38.2	1,195	31	559
Solnhofen (belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria before the regional reform)	Solnhofen Esslingen				13.5	1,748	129	410
Theilenhofen (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform)	Theilenhofen Dornhausen Gundelsheim ad Altmühl (belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria before the regional reform) Wachstein (1978)	VG Gunzenhausen			20.32	1,119	55	494
City of Treuchtlingen (before the regional reform it belonged to the Weißenburg district in Bavaria)	Treuchtlingen Auernheim (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform) Bubenheim Dietfurt in Central Franconia Grönhart Haag near Treuchtlingen Schambach Wettelsheim (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform) Windischhausen (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform)				103	12,952	124	412
Large district town Weißenburg in Bavaria (was a district-free city before the regional reform)	Weißenburg in Bayern Dettenheim (1972) Emetzheim (1978) Haardt (1978) Holzingen (1972) Kattenhochstatt (1972) Oberhochstatt (1978) Rothenstein (1972) Suffersheim (1978) Weiboldshausen (1978; partly - other part today belongs to the municipality of Höttingen) Weimersheim (1972)				97.55	18,645	180	422
Westheim (belonged to the Gunzenhausen district before the regional reform)	Westheim Hüssingen Ostheim (1972)	VG Hahnenkamm			28.32	1,169	41	439

See also

• List of places in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen

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. ↑ ^{a b} sheet "Data 2", Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
3. ↑ BayernViewer of the Bavarian Surveying Administration