Balver Höhle

The Balver Höhle is a very large cave in Middle Devonian mass limestone that was cleared by human hands and today serves as an event hall.

Balve 138m

The Balver Höhle is a very large cave in Middle Devonian mass limestone that was cleared by human hands and today serves as an event hall.

Characteristics

• Type: Cave
• Municipality: Balve
• Length: 138 meters
• Record updated: November 13, 2026

Caves are protected biotopes (§30 BNatSchG). Caves used by bats as winter quarters must not be entered from 1 October to 31 March (§39(6) BNatSchG), except show caves and their developed parts.

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1. Balver Höhle

   51.339250, 7.871854
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© Michael Kramer · CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balve_Balver_H%C3%B6hle_FFSN-6201.jpg

© Michael Kramer · CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balve_Balver_H%C3%B6hle_FFSN-6187.jpg

© Michael Kramer · CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balve_Balver_H%C3%B6hle_FFSN-6202.jpg

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Description

Morphology

The Balver Höhle is a very large cave in Middle Devonian mass limestone that was cleared by human hands.

Other details

Today it serves as a hall for events such as music concerts.

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Source: Geotopkataster Nordrhein-Westfalen (Geologischer Dienst NRW) (ogc-api.nrw.de), modified. Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0 Geowissenschaftliche Daten: INSP-GeotopeinNRW @ Geologischer Dienst NRW · data as of 2026 · Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · length · obtained 2026-11-13 · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/23405 · data as of 2026 · Source: Wikidata – cave items (Germany) (www.wikidata.org), modified. CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Wikidata (CC0 1.0) · names · obtained 2026-11-13 · data as of 2026 · Location data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/. · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/296335101 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]