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Gangelt
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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.

Key facts

German location.name
Gangelt
German location.image_photo
Gänsebrunnen_Gangelt.jpg
German location.imagesize
220px
German location.image_coa
DEU Gangelt COA.svg
German location.image_plan
Gangelt in HS.svg
German location.state
North Rhine-Westphalia
German location.region
Köln
German location.district
Heinsberg
German location.elevation
60
German location.area
48.72
German location.postal_code
52538
German location.area_code
02454
German location.licence
HS
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
05 3 70 008
German location.divisions
17
German location.website
www.gangelt.de
German location.mayor
Guido Willems
German location.leader_term
2020–25

via Wikipedia infobox

Official website

Grusswort des Bürgermeisters

Herzlich willkommen auf der offiziellen Webseite der Gemeinde Gangelt. Alle Neuigkeiten aus der Gemeinde finden Sie hier.

gangelt.de

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Geography
  • Local subdivisions
  • History
  • Town twinning
  • Local people
  • References
  • External links

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==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gangelt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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