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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.
Belm | |
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Location of Belm within Osnabrück district ![]() | |
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 |
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[3] 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
editBelm 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.