Welcome to Beckum!

Beckum is located in the south-eastern Münsterland in the district of Warendorf, about 40 minutes by car south of the district capital. You are well connected here in all directions: It takes just under an hour to drive to Münster, 40 minutes to Bielefeld and about half an hour to Hamm. From Neubeckum station you can take regional trains to Münster, Hamm, Bielefeld, Dortmund and Cologne/Bonn Airport.

Münster/Osnabrück (FMO) and Paderborn/Lippstadt airports are about an hour away by car.

Tip: Münsterland is a cycling region! 4,500 kilometres of cycle paths offer you almost unlimited possibilities in the city and in the countryside: you can commute to work comfortably by bike and go on great tours with friends and family.

The town of Beckum consists of the main town centre and three districts. Around two thirds of the total population of 37,000 live in Beckum. The second largest district, with a good 10,000 inhabitants, is Neubeckum, which is around 15 minutes north of the town centre by car. The small district of Roland lies between Beckum and Neubeckum on the banks of a pretty lake. It was built in the 1960s as a factory estate for the cement industry and is now a lively village with a good 1,000 inhabitants. Just as large is the village of Vellern to the north-east of the town centre, which was founded in the Middle Ages and has been a district of Beckum since 1969.

Even though rental and purchase prices are following the general property trend overall, there are still numerous niches to be discovered in Münsterland when building, buying or renting. Here you can find the average purchase and rental prices for a house or flat in rural Münsterland.

Would you like to build a house in Beckum? Here you will find an overview of the current building areas and urban building plots .

In Beckum you are always well provided for in everyday life: You can shop in the city and the districts in many supermarkets and drugstores , and several times a week you can also get fresh products from the region at the market.

If you want to shop, the Beckum pedestrian zone is the place to go. In addition to pubs, cafés and restaurants, you will find sports and shoe shops, decoration and gift shops and bookshops. The main street in Neubeckum also offers a variety of shopping opportunities. As in many places in Münsterland, in Beckum you can browse not only in shops of large fashion chains, but also in small, individual boutiques and conceptstores. And of course, you will find bicycle dealers offering e-bikes, bicycles and accessories almost everywhere.

Around 24 kindergartens and daycare centres offer childcare close to home in all four districts of Beckum. In addition, daycare mums and dads look after the youngest children, either at home or in daycare groups.

The educational programme in Beckum not only covers all school-leaving qualifications, but also provides access to vocational training and even a dual study programme:

• Six primary schools
• Two special schools (specialising in language, learning and intellectual development)
• One secondary school (secondary level I qualifications)
• One comprehensive school
• Two grammar schools
• One vocational college
• One location of Münster University of Applied Sciences

There are many different service providers and several logistics companies in Beckum, and the city is also an industrial centre with a focus on mechanical and plant engineering as well as cement production. Some nationally known companies from these sectors are also based in Beckum, for example the conveyor system manufacturer BEUMER Group and sites of the fibre cement specialist Eternit or thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions. The company Berief Food, which produces vegan and vegetarian products, is also based in Beckum.
Start-ups can rent office and commercial space for their companies in the development and start-up centre in the Grüner Weg business park.