Balve Cave

The Balver Höhle (German for Balve Cave) is the biggest cave used as a cultural venue in Europe. It is located in Balve, Germany.

History

The Balve Cave was mentioned in the Thidrekssaga. It has been used by the local Schützenfest (marksmen's festival) each year for over 160 years.

Since 1985 it has also been the venue of an annual theatre festival, the Festspiele Balver Höhle. Its first play was the Katharina von Georgien directed by Hermann Wedekind.In 1991 it staged dramas based on fairy tales festival was installed by Festspiele Balver Höhle. In 1998 the Festspiele Balver Höhle performed their first oriental musical.^[1] In 2009 they did their second, "Der kleine Muck".

Semi-professionals and professionals are working together at Irish Folk & Celtic Music,^[2] Balver Märchenwochen and other activities of Festspiele Balver Höhle.

Rehearsals

Christian Bollmann (until 1999)
Justus Frantz (1994–2007)
Mixery-Cave

Single events

Redentiner Osterspiel
Mal Sondock's Hitparade
Public Viewing^[3]
Tu es Petrus (1997)

Recordings

Live in der Balver Höhle (1980)
Klangräume (1996)
MTV Unplugged Fanta 4 (2000)

Literature

In German

Klaus Günther, Die altsteinzeitlichen Funde der Balver Höhle, Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1964

References

^ Aladdin und die Wunderlampe^{[permanent dead link]}
^ 7. Irish Folk & Celtic Music steht kurz bevor
^ "So ein Tag, so wunderschön wie heute..."

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Balver Höhle.

Veranstaltungen in der Balver Höhle - Schützenbruderschaft St. Sebastian Balve (in German)

51°20′20″N 7°52′19″E / 51.339°N 7.872°E / 51.339; 7.872

Subterranea

Natural features

Types	Alcove Ant colony Aquifer Burrow Burrow fossil Communal burrow Paleoburrow Cave Glacier cave Grotto Ice cave Lava cave Lava tube Pit Cave Show cave Solutional cave Cenote Karst Lava tree mold Magma chamber Maternity den Nest Bee Pit crater Rock shelter Sinkhole Subterranean fauna Subterranean river Subterranean waterfall Underground lake Volcanic pipe Warren
Exemplars	Balve Cave Castellana Caves Hang Sơn Đoòng Jewel Cave National Monument Kazumura Cave Lechuguilla Cave Mammoth Cave National Park Reed Flute Cave Subterranean rivers of London Veryovkina Cave Wind Cave National Park

Man-made features

Types	Air raid shelter Basement Burial vault Borehole Bunker Blast shelter Catacombs Casemate Crypt Mausoleum Dungeon Dugout (shelter) Dry well Earth shelter Erdstall Fallout shelter Fogou Foxhole Hypogeum Manhole Mine Missile launch facility Passage grave Quarry Rock-cut tomb Root cellar Tunnel Utility vault Underground city Underground base Underground hangar Well Wine cave Subway system Secret passage Semi-basement Sewerage Septic tank Stepwell Storm cellar Smuggling tunnel Spider hole Ventilation shaft
Exemplars	816 Nuclear Military Plant Caves of Maastricht The Caves of Ægissíða Almadén Mercury Mines Coober Pedy Cheyenne Mountain Complex Chicago Tunnel Company Houston tunnel system Kosvinsky Kamen Kőbánya cellar system Kome Caves Underground City (Beijing) Underground City, Montreal Underground Great Wall of China Maginot Line Mines of Paris Mustang Caves Mount Yamantau Mogao Caves Naples underground geothermal zone North American Aerospace Defense Command Raven Rock Mountain Complex Shanghai tunnels Subterranean London Subterranean Toledo Turda Salt Mines Yaodong

Types

Exemplars

Fictional features

Types	Hollow Earth Subterranean fiction
Exemplars	Allegory of the cave Batcave Greek Underworld Journey to the Center of the Earth Moria (Middle-earth) Nome Kingdom Pellucidar Subterranea (comics) Tunnels in popular culture Underdark Underland (Narnia) Wonderland (fictional country)