GANGELT: 52538 North Rhine-Westphalia (Gerz)
Gangelt is a municipality in the district Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia on the border with the Netherlands, approx. 10 km E of Sittard and 10 km SW of Heinsberg. Gerard Kremer, a famous cartographer (born 1512) and better known as Gerardus Mercator, lived fhere or the first five or six years of his life. map. general town information. [October 2010]
Jüdischer Friedhof:The wooden entrance gates from the cemetery were moved to Jewish Cemetery of Amherst in Shutesbury, Massachusetts in 2010. story. photo of Gangelt cemetery: Jüdischer Friedhof (Gangelt). [October 2010]