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Gangelt
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Gangelt within Heinsberg district
Gangelt Show map of Germany Gangelt Show map of North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates: 50°58′59″N 06°00′00″E / 50.98306°N 6.00000°E / 50.98306; 6.00000
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Köln
District	Heinsberg
Subdivisions	17
Government
•  Mayor (2020–25)	Guido Willems [1] ( CDU)
Area
• Total	48.73 km2 (18.81 sq mi)
Elevation	60 m (200 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31) [2]
• Total	13,240
• Density	270/km2 (700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 ( CET)
• Summer ( DST)	UTC+02:00 ( CEST)
Postal codes	52538
Dialling codes	02454
Vehicle registration	HS
Website	www.gangelt.de

Gangelt is a municipality in the district of Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is on the border with the Netherlands and about 10 km east of Sittard and 10 km south-west of Heinsberg.

Its most well-known resident was cartographer Gerard Kremer, better known as Gerardus Mercator, who lived the first five or six years of his life there.

Geography

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.

In February 2020, a carnival celebration caused a massive COVID-19 outbreak. In April 2020, one in seven residents was seropositive, in a sample of 500. ^[3]

Town twinning

• Sohland an der Spree, Germany, since 1991
• Kruibeke, Belgium, since 1998
• Onderbanken, Netherlands, since 1975

Local people

• Gerardus Mercator, cartographer born 1512
• Karl-Josef Kutsch (born 1924), German physician and co-author of Großes Sängerlexikon

References

External links

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