Belm

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Belm
Coat of arms of Belm
Coat of arms
Location of Belm within Osnabrück district
Belm is located in Germany
Belm
Belm
Coordinates: 52°18′N 08°08′E / 52.300°N 8.133°E / 52.300; 8.133Coordinates: 52°18′N 08°08′E / 52.300°N 8.133°E / 52.300; 8.133
CountryGermany
StateLower Saxony
DistrictOsnabrück
Subdivisions5
Government
 • MayorViktor Hermeler (crossbench)
Area
 • Total46.67 km2 (18.02 sq mi)
Elevation
81 m (266 ft)
Population
 (2020-12-31)[1]
 • Total13,935
 • Density300/km2 (770/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
49191
Dialling codes05406
Vehicle registrationOS
Websitewww.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[2] 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[]

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Belm is twinned with:

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[]

  1. ^ Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen, LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2020.
  2. ^ http://www.belmer-muehle.de/


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