Balve
Balve is a town in the Märkischer Kreis district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in Hönnetal, a narrow valley created by the river Hönne, which is near the Sorpe Dam, formerly part of Balve, and at the north end of the Sauerland, near Dortmund.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 12,200 residents
- Description: town in the Märkischer Kreis district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as: “05962008” and “Stadt Balve”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Balve Cave and Luisenhütte.
Balve Cave
Cave
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Balver Höhle is the biggest cave used as a cultural venue in Europe. It is located in Balve, Germany.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Langenholthausen and Mellen.
Balve
- Categories: Hanseatic city, urban municipality in Germany, and locality
- Location: Märkischer Kreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.3327° or 51° 19′ 58″ northLongitude
7.8671° or 7° 52′ 1″ eastPopulation
12,200Elevation
256 metres (840 feet)Open location code
9F398VM8+3ROpenStreetMap ID
node 240074737OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6557677Wikidata ID
Q5274
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Balve” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Balve”
- Arabic: “بالفه”
- Aragonese: “Balve”
- Arpitan: “Balve”
- Asturian: “Balve”
- Basque: “Balve”
- Bavarian: “Balve”
- Belarusian: “Бальвэ”
- Breton: “Balve”
- Catalan: “Balve”
- Cebuano: “Balve”
- Chechen: “Бальве (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Бальве”
- Chinese: “巴尔沃”
- Corsican: “Balve”
- Croatian: “Balve”
- Czech: “Balve”
- Danish: “Balve”
- Dutch: “Balve”
- Esperanto: “Balve”
- Estonian: “Balve”
- Finnish: “Balve”
- French: “Balve”
- Friulian: “Balve”
- Galician: “Balve”
- German: “Balve”
- Hebrew: “באלווה”
- Hungarian: “Balve”
- Icelandic: “Balve”
- Ido: “Balve”
- Indonesian: “Balve”
- Interlingua: “Balve”
- Interlingue: “Balve”
- Irish: “Balve”
- Italian: “Balve”
- Japanese: “バルヴェ”
- Japanese: “ブラーヴェ”
- Kazakh: “Бальве”
- Kazakh: “Бальфе”
- Kirghiz: “Бальве”
- Kongo: “Balve”
- Kurdish: “Balve”
- Ladin: “Balve”
- Ligurian: “Balve”
- Limburgan: “Balve”
- Lombard: “Balve”
- Low German: “Balve”
- Luxembourgish: “Balve”
- Malagasy: “Balve”
- Malay: “Balve”
- Minangkabau: “Balve”
- Narom: “Balve”
- Neapolitan: “Balve”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balve”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balve”
- Norwegian: “Balve”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Balve”
- Persian: “بالوه”
- Picard: “Balve”
- Piemontese: “Balve”
- Polish: “Balve”
- Portuguese: “Balve”
- Romanian: “Balve”
- Romansh: “Balve”
- Russian: “Бальве”
- Russian: “Бальфе”
- Sardinian: “Balve”
- Scots: “Balve”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Balve”
- Serbian: “Balve”
- Serbian: “Балве”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Balve”
- Sicilian: “Balve”
- Slovak: “Balve”
- Slovenian: “Balve”
- South Azerbaijani: “بالوه”
- Spanish: “Balve”
- Swahili: “Balve”
- Swedish: “Balve”
- Swiss German: “Balve”
- Tatar: “Бальве (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Бальве”
- Tumbuka: “Balve”
- Turkish: “Balve”
- Ukrainian: “Бальве”
- Ukrainian: “Бальфе”
- Uzbek: “Balve”
- Venetian: “Balve”
- Vietnamese: “Balve”
- Vlaams: “Balve”
- Volapük: “Balve”
- Walloon: “Balve”
- Waray (Philippines): “Balve”
- Welsh: “Balve”
- Wolof: “Balve”
- Zulu: “Balve”
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