title: Belm
text: # 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
  