Jettingen-Scheppach
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- Jettingen redirects here. For the town in France, see Jettingen, Haut-Rhin.
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Politics
Community council
Jettingen-Scheppach's first mayor is Hans Reichhart (CSU). All together, the community council (Gemeinderat) has 21 seats, which as of the last communal election on 3 March 2002 are distributed thus:- CSU: 11 seats
- Free Independent Voter Community (FUW): 5 seats
- SPD: 3 seats
- Young Citizens: 2 seats
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.
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).
Personalities
People born in the town
- Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702-1762), composer and organist.
- Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (1907-1944) – Resistance fighter in the Second World War, and member of the July 20 Plot.
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