River bifurcation in Gesmold: Hase (left) and Else (right)

Gesmold is a town and former municipality, now part of Melle, in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is placed between the Wiehengebirge and the Teutoburg Forest.

It features Gesmold Castle, a Renaissance building. Another interesting place is the Church of St. Peter.^[1]

Important persons of Gesmold

Hermann von Amelunxen (died 1580), Baron
Ludwig von Hammerstein (1702–1796), Baron
Johann Matthias Seling (1792–1860), Professor and Priest in Osnabrück
Mathias Schürmann, Professor, from 1828 to 1866 Priest in Gesmold
Ludwig von Hammerstein (1832–1905), Jesuit and writer
Wilhelm Joachim von Hammerstein (1838–1904), German politician
Conrad Seeling, (19. Jh.) painter and builder
Bernhard Olthaus (1862–1952), Dekan
Hans von Hammerstein (1867–1933), German General of the Infanterie
Fritjof von Hammerstein, (1870–1944), German Generalleutnant
August Niehaus (1880–1961), teacher and writer
Heinrich Rahe (1892–1975), teacher and poet
Heinrich Stühlmeyer (1907–1978), a "silent hero of the resistance"^[2] against National Socialism, who was deported to the concentration camp Emslandlager in 1940 for his support of the Catholic church and those persecuted by the Third Reich, had been employed at St. Peter's Gesmold for 47 years.^[3]

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