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Gelmer is situated at the north-eastern outskirts in close proximity to the Dortmund-Ems-Canal and offers a home to around 3.000 people. Part of Gelmer is the farming community Gittrup with the Lake Gittrup.

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The district itself is mostly formed by agriculture. In addition, there is an oil terminal with a connected tank storage facility of the Westfalen AG at the Dortmund-Ems-Canal as well as a smaller industrial area. North of Gelmer is the canal viaduct Münster-Gelmer situated, an important industrial monument from the end of the 19th-century.