Beckum is in the southern part of the district called Kreis
Warendorf, embedded into the delightful park-landscape of the
Münsterland. The slight increase around the city, the “beckum
mountains”, belongs to a the few uprisings in the Münsterland.
Beckum is directly to one of the most important east-west circuits,
the A2, and is in short distance to the Ruhr district, the
east-westfalian area and the centre of the Münsterland. The course
of the three brooks, the source rivers of the Werse, decorate the
emblem of Beckum. With the brook runs it´s about the Lippbach, the
Kollenbach and the Siechenbach. They also were it, which helped the
city Beckum to her name.
Bekehem or Bikehem is not called anything other than “brook-home” -
the home at the brooks. Today Beckum is the residence of nearly
38.000 inhabitants. With the districts Neubeckum, Vellern and
Roland. Beckum today is an attractive central center.
Online-Card - Beckum
Former Town hall
Neubeckum
Since 1224 the city Beckum possesses its municipal law. However already in much former times a settlement on Beckum´s ground is proved. Three stone crate graves can be belonged to the oldest certifications of human culture in Westphalia. Today the city Beckum belongs to the district of Warendorf and is a modern industrial city with country-wide meaning.
