Balve

Balve, a small city in North Rhine Westphalia with city rights because 1430, is located in the Honnetal, a river valley inside the Sauerland. For many centuries, the metropolis became a frontier fort of the Kurkolnische Sauerland. Her motto as solid as Balve is an expression of her defenselessness and dates from the time of the Truchsess War. Patron Saint is the evangelist and Apostle John. Politically assigned to the executive district Arnsberg, Balve belongs to the Markischer Kreis and the region Sudwestfalen.

The city is high quality recognized for the Balver Cave, one of the most important websites of the Middle Paleolithic and on the identical time the most important cultural give way Europe. It is used nowadays for cultural events. The vintage Balver parish church is an critical example of Romanesque hall churches in Westphalia and has ornate frescoes from the 13th century. In Balve is one in every of the most important dinosaur websites inside the use of a. There have been dinosaur tooth early mammalian bones, portions of turtle shell determined. Local mineral creditors came throughout remnants of a complete of 8 identified species of dinosaurs in 2002, all of which may be dated to the Cretaceous.