Belm
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Belm | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Belm within Osnabrück district  | |
  Belm  Belm | |
| Coordinates: 52°18′N 08°08′E / 52.300°N 8.133°E | |
| 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
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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](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Belm_alte_muehle_am_tie.jpg/120px-Belm_alte_muehle_am_tie.jpg)
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"
![Old water mill, founded approx. 840[3] in Belm](/wiki/File:Belm_alte_muehle_am_tie.jpg)
International relations[edit]
Belm is twinned with:
Famous people[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ "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.
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