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In addition to the core city of Gammertingen with around 5000 inhabitants belong to the whole city five districts, among them the three boroughs Feldhausen, Harthausen and Kettenacker together with the princely Hohenzollern domain Lusthof on the plateau of the Swabian Jura, Bronnen and Mariaberg.
History
The well-known Helmet of Gammertingen and other rich grave goods from a number of burial grounds provide the information of an early settlement in the time of the Merovingian dynasty.[3]
Gammertingen was first mentioned in 1101 in a document of the Kloster Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen.
Gammertingen was first mentioned in 1311 as a city.[4] During the time of the Hohenzollern and later Prussian times, Gammertingen was the seat of Oberamt, district court, forestry department and land registry.
^Angela Vielstich, Edwin Ernst Weber: Der »Dreiländerkreis« Sigmaringen im geschichtlichen Überblick. In: Dirk Gaerte (Hrsg.); Edwin Ernst Weber (Konzeption): Der Dreiländerkreis Sigmaringen. Ein Führer zu Natur, Wirtschaft, Geschichte und Kultur. Gmeiner Verlag, Meßkirch 2007, ISBN978-3-89977-512-9, S. 23–36, hier S. 24.
^Ludwig Eglers Chronik der Stadt Hechingen. Hechingen 1980, S. 14 Anmk.
^Edwin Ernst Weber: Sophie Scholl im Reichsarbeitsdienstlager Schloss Krauchenwies. In: Denkstättenkuratorium NS-Dokumentation Oberschwaben (Hrsg.): Denkorte an oberschwäbischen Erinnerungswegen in den Landkreisen Bodenseekreis und Sigmaringen. 2012. S. 30
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