Belm

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Belm
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Belm within Osnabrück district
Interactive map of Belm
Location within Germany Show map of Germany Location within Lower Saxony Show map of Lower Saxony
Coordinates: 52°18′N 08°08′E / 52.300°N 8.133°E / 52.300; 8.133
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Osnabrück
Subdivisions	5
Government
• Mayor (2021–26)	Viktor Hermeler (Ind.)
Area
• Total	46.64 km2 (18.01 sq mi)
Elevation	81 m (266 ft)
Population  (2025-12-31)
• Total	13,907
• Density	298.2/km2 (772.3/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	49191
Dialling codes	05406
Vehicle registration	OS, BSB, MEL, WTL
Website	www.belm.de

Belm (German pronunciation: [bɛlm]) 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

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

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