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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 (Ind.)
Area
• Total	46.67 km (18.02 sq mi)
Elevation	81 m (266 ft)
Population
• Total	14,095
• Density	300/km (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

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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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