Gangelt

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Country Germany Admin. region Köln Elevation 60 m (200 ft) Area 48.73 km² Local time Friday 9:49 AM Dialling code 02454		State North Rhine-Westphalia District Heinsberg Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Population 11,634 (31 Dec 2010) Postal code 52538 Administrative region Cologne

Weather 7°C, Wind W at 3 km/h, 80% Humidity

Gangelt is a municipality in the district of Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the border with the Netherlands, approx. 10 km east of Sittard and 10 km south-west of Heinsberg. Gangelt was the town in which Gerard Kremer, better known as Gerardus Mercator, lived for the first five or six years of his life. Mercator was a famous cartographer (born 1512).

Map of 52538 Gangelt, Germany

Local subdivisions

Gangelt with 2,521 inhabitants

Birgden with 2,977 inhabitants

Breberen with 828 inhabitants

Broichhoven with 168 inhabitants

Brüxgen with 513 inhabitants

Buscherheide with 132 inhabitants

Harzelt with 201 inhabitants

Hastenrath with 536 inhabitants

Hohenbusch with 45 inhabitants

Kievelberg with 32 inhabitants

Kreuzrath with 504 inhabitants

Langbroich with 807 inhabitants

Mindergangelt with 244 inhabitants

Nachbarheid with 120 inhabitants

Niederbusch with 601 inhabitants

Schierwaldenrath with 596 inhabitants

Schümm with 93 inhabitants

Stahe with 1,029 inhabitants

Vinteln with 42 inhabitants

(21.02.2007)

History

Gangelt was first mentioned in a document in 828 as a King's property.

Town twinning

Sohland an der Spree, Germany, since 1991

Kruibeke, Belgium, since 1998

Onderbanken, Netherlands, since 1975

Sons and Daughters of Gangelt

Gerardus Mercator, cartographer born 1512

References

Gangelt Wikipedia

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