Balve - Points of Interest

Points of Interest

There are many caves in the Hönnetal, including the Balver Höhle at Helle, a large cave used for cultural events such as concerts, stage acting and the annual marksmen's festival, and the Reckenhöhle, a cave 1,478 ft in length that has flowstone. Experts have found signs of cannibalism in some of the caves.

Other points of interest include

  1. The walls of an old Germanic farm, located Garbeck,
  2. Beckum, where scientists found bones from eight kind of species of dinosaurs from the cretaceous, and
  3. The Luisenhütte, the only surviging 18th-century blast furnace that is still in workable condition, situated close to the 14th-century castle Schloss Wocklum, the home of Count Dieter von Landsberg-Velen.

  • Schloss Wocklum

  • Luisenhütte

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