You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (December 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Belm]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Belm}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Belm
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Belm within Osnabrück district
Belm Show map of Germany Belm 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 [1] ( Ind.)
Area
• Total	46.67 km2 (18.02 sq mi)
Elevation	81 m (266 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31) [2]
• Total	14,095
• Density	300/km2 (780/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 ( CET)
• Summer ( DST)	UTC+02:00 ( CEST)
Postal codes	49191
Dialling codes	05406
Vehicle registration	OS
Website	www.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

This Osnabrück district location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e