- Gangelt
Infobox German Location
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Name = Gangelt
Wappen = Wappen.Gangelt.jpg
lat_deg = 50 |lat_min = 58 |lat_sec = 59
lon_deg = 06 |lon_min = 00 |lon_sec = 00
Lageplan =
Bundesland = North Rhine-Westphalia
Regierungsbezirk = Köln
Kreis = Heinsberg
Höhe = 60
Fläche = 48.73
Einwohner = 11624
Stand = 2005-05-18
PLZ = 52538
Vorwahl = 02454
Kfz = HS
Gemeindeschlüssel = 05 3 70 008
Gliederung = 17
Straße = Burgstr. 10
Website = [http://www.gangelt.de/ www.gangelt.de]
Bürgermeister = Bernhard Tholen
Partei = CDUGangelt is a municipality in the district Heinsberg, in
North Rhine-Westphalia ,Germany . It is situated on the border with theNetherlands , approx. 10 km east ofSittard and 10 km south-west ofHeinsberg . Gangelt was the town in which Gerard Kremer, better known as Gerard Mercator, lived for the first five or six years of his life. Mercator was the famous cartographer (born 1512). See "Mercator - The Man Who Mapped the Planet" by Nicholas Crane, 2002, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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