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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Bavaria
- Admin region
- Schwaben
- District
- Donau-Ries
- Mayor 2023 29
- Georg Stoller
- Total
- 19.44 km (7.51 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 441 m (1,447 ft)
- Density
- 172.8/km (447.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Dialling codes
- 09081
- Vehicle registration
- DON
- Website
- www.markt-wallerstein.de
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Wallerstein ( German pronunciation: [ˈvalɐʃtaɪn]) is a municipality and former principality in the district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria in Germany.
It was first mentioned in 1238 as Steinheim. For generations ruled by the House of Oettingen-Wallerstein, in 1806 Wallerstein became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria by the process of mediatisation. The family still owns the Wallerstein Castle and its surrounding land.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wallerstein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.