Jettingen-Scheppach Explained

Image Coa:DEU Jettingen-Scheppach COA.svg
Coordinates:48.3833°N 36°W
Image Plan:Jettingen-Scheppach in GZ.svg
State:Bayern
Region:Schwaben
District:Günzburg
Elevation:470
Area:54.07
Gemeindeschlüssel:09774144
Postal Code:89343
Area Code:0 82 25
Licence:GZ
Website:www.jettingen-scheppach.de
Mayor:Christoph Böhm[1]
Leader Term:2020 - 26

Jettingen-Scheppach is a market community 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

Jettingen-Scheppach's first mayor is Christoph Böhm, elected in March 2020.[1]

Community council

All together, the community council (Gemeinderat) has 21 seats, which as of the last communal election on 16 March 2014 are distributed thus:

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

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

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 community of Csolnok since 1992.

Personalities

People born in the town

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.statistik.bayern.de/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/bgm/ Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden