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
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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