Balve is a town in the Markischer Kreis district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the Honnetal, a narrow valley cut by the river Honne, near the Sorpe Dam and at the north end of the Sauerland close to Dortmund. The modern town was established in 1975 from the merger of several divisions including Balve, Beckum and Eisborn and Garbeck.
Facts
Founding Year Founding Year Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Balve (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 11,134 (2025)
2. Wikipedia (German): Balve
Wikipedia (German)Source text, founding-year-range-start: 946
Balve wurde 946 als Ballova, 980 als Ballava erwähnt.
Source text, founding-year-range-end: 946
Balve wurde 946 als Ballova, 980 als Ballava erwähnt.
Source text, founding-year: 946
Balve wurde 946 als Ballova, 980 als Ballava erwähnt.
View the Source 3. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Balve coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevationQuote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 235.0 ]
4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.25, 7.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.25, 7.75
51.25 7.75 Cfb
5. GeoNames: Balve - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2953003, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2953003, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
51.3315 7.86424 P PPL DE 07 059 05962 05962008 12281 237 Europe/Berlin
Balve (Wikipedia)
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
On Continent: Europe, Lead paragraph names Germany; continent follows from the atlas record for Germany
) is a town in the Märkischer Kreis district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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