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Grosselfingen

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Grosselfingen

Total population

2,138

Elevation520 m
Land area16.15 km²
Coordinates48.33°, 8.89°

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Elevation
520 m
Area
16.15 km²
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Official website
www.grosselfingen.de

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Overview

Grosselfingen is a town in the Zollernalbkreis district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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History & geography

History

In the first half of the 14th century, the village of Grosselfingen was a possession of the Lordship of Haimburg, a fief of the County of Hohenberg and then the County of Zollern. The Lordship, and by extension the village, was from 1428 to 1522 ruled by the . In 1850, the Zollern was taken over by the Kingdom of Prussia, whose government assigned Grosselfingen to , reorganized in 1925 as . Grosselfingen, which was agrarian before World War II, industrialized after the war. Beginning in 1950, it grew to the north-west and south-east. The district of Balingen was dissolved by the and Grosselfingen was assigned to a new district, Zollernalbkreis. Continued growth in the 1980s and 1990s spread Grosselfingen further south.

Geography

The municipality (Gemeinde) of Grosselfingen covers of the Zollernalb district of Baden-Württemberg, one of the 16 States of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is physically located between the rivers Starzel and Eyach, in the foothills of the Swabian Jura. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of Normalnull (NN) on the Owinger Berg to a low of .

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Latitude
48.3342
Longitude
8.8864
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Official Identifiers

Destatis — German Federal Statistical Office

AGS
08417023
Population (Wikidata)
2,195
Wikidata
Q573843

Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel (AGS) via Wikidata P439

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  • Destatis — German Federal Statistical Office — Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel (AGS) via Wikidata P439