Velm
Coordinates: 50°46′28″N 5°08′06″E / 50.77444°N 5.13500°E
Velm is a village in the Belgian province of Limburg and one of the communities constituting the municipality of Sint-Truiden. The village has a surface of 10,45 km² and comprised 2175 inhabitants in 2001.
Velm is a residential village in Haspengouw, 6 km southeast of Sint-Truiden. It is bounded in the east by the N80 motorway, leading to Namur, and in the west by the railroad Sint-Truiden to Landen. On that line, Velm had a railway station until 1957.
Velm was mentioned for the first time in writing in 790 as Falmia. As of 982 the name of Velme can be found. Originally, Velm was a fief of the Abbey of Gorze near Metz in France. In the 16th century the manor was sold to the Principality of Liège. Everhard van der Marck donated the rights to the lands immediately to the chapter of Saint Lambert in Liège.
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