{"id":1270,"count":1,"description":"Balve is a town in the M\u00e4rkischer Kreis district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in H\u00f6nnetal, a narrow valley created by the river H\u00f6nne, which is near the Sorpesee, formerly part of Balve, and at the north end of the Sauerland, near Dortmund. The town was established in 1975 with several divisions including Balve, Beckum, and Eisborn.\nThe first disputed reference to Balve was in around 780, when it was mentioned that a Widukind owned a farm called Ballowa, another name for the town. The first undisputed reference was in 864, in which a blind girl from Balve was said to be healed at the grave of the Saint Ludger in the crypt of Werden Abbey.\nBallowa is also mentioned in the Thidrekssaga, a chivalric saga written in the mid-13th century in Norway. In the saga, Ballowa is the home of two dwarfs who taught Weyland much about making iron weapons. At the time of writing, Balve belonged to the county of Arnsberg.\nIn 1358 the town became the property of the Duchy of...","link":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/?tag=balve","name":"Balve","slug":"balve","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t