Gangelt
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Coat of arms of Gangelt Coat of arms | |
Location of Gangelt
within Heinsberg district | |
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| Country | Germany |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Admin. region | Köln |
| District | Heinsberg |
| Subdivisions | 17 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–25) | Guido Willems[1] (CDU) |
| Area | |
• Total | 48.72 km2 (18.81 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 60 m (200 ft) |
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| 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 (German pronunciation: [ˈɡaŋl̩t]) 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
[edit | edit source]Local subdivisions
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]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.[2]
Town twinning
[edit | edit source]- File:Flag of Germany.svg Sohland an der Spree, Germany, since 1991
- File:Flag of Belgium.svg Kruibeke, Belgium, since 1998
- File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Onderbanken, Netherlands, since 1975
Local people
[edit | edit source]- Gerardus Mercator, cartographer born 1512
- Karl-Josef Kutsch (born 1924), German physician and co-author of Großes Sängerlexikon
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 21 June 2021.
- ^ From: https://www.land.nrw/sites/default/files/asset/document/zwischenergebnis_covid19_case_study_gangelt_0.pdf
External links
[edit | edit source]Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
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