Gangelt
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
Local subdivisions
Gangelt with 2,521 inhabitantsBirgden with 2,977 inhabitantsBreberen with 828 inhabitantsBroichhoven with 168 inhabitantsBrüxgen with 513 inhabitantsBuscherheide with 132 inhabitantsHarzelt with 201 inhabitantsHastenrath with 536 inhabitantsHohenbusch with 45 inhabitantsKievelberg with 32 inhabitantsKreuzrath with 504 inhabitantsLangbroich with 807 inhabitantsMindergangelt with 244 inhabitantsNachbarheid with 120 inhabitantsNiederbusch with 601 inhabitantsSchierwaldenrath with 596 inhabitantsSchümm with 93 inhabitantsStahe with 1,029 inhabitantsVinteln with 42 inhabitantsHistory
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.
Town twinning
- Sohland an der Spree, Germany, since 1991
- Kruibeke, Belgium, since 1998
- Onderbanken, Netherlands, since 1975
Local people
- Gerardus Mercator, cartographer born 1512
- Karl-Josef Kutsch, German physician and co-author of ''Großes Sängerlexikon''