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Gangelt
Municipality

Coat of arms
Location of Gangelt within Heinsberg district
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Köln
District	Heinsberg
Subdivisions	17
Area
• Total	48.73 km² (18.81 sq mi)
Elevation	60 m (200 ft)
Population (2023-12-31)^[1]
• Total	13,388
• Density	270/km² (710/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 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).

Geography

Neighbour municipalities

	Waldfeucht	Heinsberg
Selfkant		Geilenkirchen
Sittard	Onderbanken

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

v t e Towns and municipalities in Heinsberg (district)
Erkelenz Gangelt Geilenkirchen Heinsberg Hückelhoven Selfkant Übach-Palenberg Waldfeucht Wassenberg Wegberg		Coat of Arms of Heinsberg district

References

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^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2023 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 2024-06-20.

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