Gangelt
Sign in to saveGangelt () 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 →Link to the official site · 4,260 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Gangelt
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Heinsberg
- Population
- 13388
- Area
- 48.72
- Elevation
- 60
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Geilenkirchen
- Official website
- www.gangelt.de
- Image
- Gänsebrunnen Gangelt.jpg
- Dialing code
- 02454
- Licence plate code
- HS
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- twinned administrative body
- Kruibeke
- Commons category
- Gangelt
- postal code
- 52538
- P6814
- Gangelt
- P8168
- John Banner
- native label
- Gangelt
- hashtag
- Gangelt
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- 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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