Belm
# Belm

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 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
