Belm

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Municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Belm within Osnabrück district

(2021–26) Viktor Hermeler^[1] (Ind.)Area

• Total46.67 km² (18.02 sq mi)Elevation

81 m (266 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total14,095 • Density300/km² (780/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

49191

Dialling codes05406Vehicle registrationOSWebsitewww.belm.de

Belm is a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the Wiehengebirge, approximately 7 km northeast of Osnabrück, and is therefore part of the city-agglomeration of Osnabrück. It is seated in the middle of the TERRA.vita Nature Park. Two little right tributaries of the river Hase flow through it.

The municipality is divided into 5 boroughs: Belm, Powe, Icker, Haltern and Vehrte

Catholic romanesque church St. Dionysius (built between 1230 and 1250) in Belm
Protestant Christchurch in Belm, built from 1815 to 1819. In 1812, the Protestants received permission from Napoleon I in Moscow to build a church.
Old water mill, founded approx. 840^[3] in Belm
Old Vehrte railway station
Megalithic tomb "Devil's Baking Oven" in Vehrte
Megalithic tomb "Devil's Dough Trough" in Vehrte
Glacial erratic "Devil's Stone" in Vehrte
Feeder beck of the river Nette in Vehrte
Sinkhole "Icker Loch" in Icker
Megalithic tomb "Sloopsteine of Haltern"

International relations

Belm is twinned with:

Elterlein, Germany, since 2004
Kolno, Poland, since 2006
Englewood, USA, since 2007

Famous people

Ingo Petzke (born September 18, 1947), an internationally acknowledged German film scholar, filmmaker and author
Sascha Weidner (born August 1, 1974, died April 9, 2015), German photographer and artist

References

^ "Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.
^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
^ "Home". belmer-muehle.de.