Art	Stadt
Name	Balve
Image photo	Balve, 20070915.jpg
Wappen	Stadtwappen der Stadt Balve.png
Lat deg	51 |lat_min = 20 | lat_sec=0
Lon deg	07 |lon_min = 52 | lon_sec=0
Lageplan	Balve in MK.svg
Bundesland	Nordrhein-Westfalen
Regierungsbezirk	Arnsberg
Kreis	Märkischer Kreis
Höhe	240 - 546
Fläche	74.76
Einwohner	12039
Stand	2009-06-30
Plz	58802
Vorwahl	02375
Kfz	MK
Gemeindeschlüssel	05 9 62 008
Gliederung	7
Straße	Widukindplatz 1
Website	www.balve.de
Bürgermeister	Hubertus Mühling
Partei	CDU

Balve is a town in the Märkischer Kreis district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in Hönnetal, a narrow valley created by the river Hönne, 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.

History

The 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.

Ballowa 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.

In 1358 the town became the property of the Duchy of Westphalia, which belonged to the Archbishops of Cologne. In 1430 it was given the right to be called a city. During the Napoleonic period, it belonged for a short time (1802–1815) to Hesse, after which time it became part of the Kingdom of Prussia.

In 1975, during a local government reorganization, the city was enlarged by the addition of the several former independent municipalities from the abolished Amt Balve, including Asbeck, Beckum, and Eisborn.

Organizations, economy and transportation

Local organizations include a Red Cross chapter, and the Schützenbruderschaft St. Sebastian Balve, founded in 1947. Primary schools in the town include Grundschule Balve and Grundschule Beckum. Several international companies have roots in the town, including Balver Zinn, Chemie Wocklum, and Kruse Group.

Train stations in Balve include Binolen, Volkringhausen, Sanssouci, Garbeck and Balve, the latter station part of the Hönnetalbahn (RB 54) line.

Religion

The main religion in Balve is Roman Catholicism. The church Saint Blaise, built in the 12th century and an example of Romanesque architecture, was consecrated to Mary. On February 3 each year a special ceremony is held in the church, called the Blessing of the Throats. The altar servers of Saint Blaise visit other cities every year, for example Georgsmarienhütte in 1982. Bones from Benedict of Nursia and Saint Blaise, and a 400-year-old monument for Hermann von Hatzfeld, are located in the church. Additionally, two Roman Catholic parishes have been present in Balve for several years.

A Lutheran church is located at Hönnetalstrasse near to the Gemeindezentrum.

Culture

Performing arts

The Männerchor 1860 Balve is the largest choir in Balve. Other choirs include the Männerchor Garbeck and MC Cäcilia Volkringhausen. The town's bands include Musikverein Balve and Musikverein Garbeck.

Until 2005, the organization Festpiele Balver Höhle and the town of Balve have jointly hosted a jazz festival. Acts at the festival have included performances by Jan Garbarek and by Piirpauke. One of the theatre ensembles in Balve is the Kolpingtheatergruppe, directed by Christoph Rapp. Another form of entertainment, the Balver Märchenwochen, involves performing fairy tales at Christsmas.

Festivals

The Festspiele Balver Höhle is held at the Balver Höhle, a cave in Balve. The festival is a major focus of the culture in and around the town, featuring music and theatre performances. The only marksmen's festival, Schützenfest, is also held in a cave, and is organized by Schützenbruderschaft St. Sebastian.

A large bonfire on Easter Sunday is another tradition in Balve, organized by the Kolpingsfamilie Balve. On May 1 each year the fire brigade of Balve is invited to the Feuerwehrfest, and for 20 years a christmas market has organized by Balver Fachhandel that features a live nativity scene.

Sports

One of the soccer clubs in Balve, SG Balve/Garbeck, won the DFB-Ü 40-Cup in 2007. The town also organizes the Balve Optimum, a competition between horse riders.

Participiants in the Balve Optimum have included: ;Horse jumping

Reiner Klimke

Paul Schockemöhle

Ludger Beerbaum

Markus Beerbaum

Jessica Kürten (2007)

Hugo Simon (2008)

Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum (2008)

Eva Bitter (2008)

;Dressage

Isabell Werth (2008)

Matthias Alexander Rath (2008)

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 # The walls of an old Germanic farm, located Garbeck, # Beckum, where scientists found bones from eight kind of species of dinosaurs from the cretaceous, and # 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.

Coat of arms

The town's coat of arms references the history of Balve. The eagle is taken from the arms of Arnsberg, and the black-and-white cross from that of Cologne. Both symbols were present in old seals of the city, of which the oldest known example dates from 1462. The coat of arms was officially granted on June 24, 1911, and confirmed on February 6, 1976, after the local government reorganization of 1975.

The bottom part of the coat of arms of the former Amt Balve is identical Bolve's town arms. The top half showed St. Peter, wearing a red coat and holding in his left hand a golden key and in his right a golden book. This coat of arms was granted on March 5, 1957, and expired when the Amt was dissolved in 1975.

Persons of interest

Franz Hoffmeister († 1943), Roman Catholic priest

Theodor Pröpper († 1979), composer

Hermann Wedekind († 1998), actor, operasinger and theatredirector

References

External links

Official site

Category:Märkischer Kreis

Name	Dorothy Fields
Background	non_performing_personnel
Birth name	Dorothy Fields
Born	July 15, 1905
Died	March 28, 1974 New York City, United States
Origin	Allenhurst, New Jersey, United States
Occupation	Lyricist

Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist.

She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood female songwriters.

Biography

Fields was born in Allenhurst, New Jersey, and grew up in New York City.

Her father, Lew Fields, an immigrant from Poland, was a vaudeville comedian and later became a Broadway producer. Her career as a professional songwriter took off in 1928, when Jimmy McHugh, who had seen some of her early work, invited her to provide some lyrics for him for Blackbirds of 1928. Fields and McHugh teamed up until 1935. Songs from this period include "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby", "Exactly Like You", and "On the Sunny Side of the Street."

In the mid-1930s, Fields started to write lyrics for films and collaborated with other composers, including Jerome Kern. With Kern, she worked on the movie version of Roberta, and also on their greatest success, Swing Time. The song "The Way You Look Tonight" earned the Fields/Kern team an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936.

Fields returned to New York and worked again on Broadway shows, but now as a librettist, first with Arthur Schwartz on Stars In Your Eyes. (They re-teamed in 1951 for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.) In the 1940s, she teamed up with her brother Herbert Fields, with whom she wrote the books for three Cole Porter shows, Let's Face It!, Something for the Boys, and Mexican Hayride. Together, they wrote the book for Annie Get Your Gun, a musical inspired by the life of Annie Oakley. They intended for Jerome Kern to write the music, but when he died, Irving Berlin was brought in. The show was a success, and ran for 1,147 performances.

In the 1950s, her biggest success was the show Redhead (1959), which won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. When she started collaborating with Cy Coleman in the 1960s, her career took a new turn. Their first work together was Sweet Charity. Her last hit was from their second collaboration in 1973, Seesaw. Its signature song was "It's Not Where You Start, It's Where You Finish". Fields died of a stroke the next year at the age of 68.

Fields was the sister of writers Herbert and Joseph.

Thirty-five years after her death, Barack Obama, in his inauguration speech as 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009, echoed lyrics by Fields when he said, "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America". This alludes to the song "Pick Yourself Up" from the 1936 film Swing Time, for which Jerome Kern had written the music, in which Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire sang Fields's words "Pick yourself up; dust yourself off; start all over again".

References

External links

Dorothy Fields at Internet Broadway Database

Songwriters Hall of Fame">Dorothy Fields at the Songwriters Hall of Fame

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Rath can refer to:

Things

Rath, as an alternative spelling of Rat, a German advisory or ruling council, see, e.g., Parlamentarischer Rat

Ráth, Irish ringfort, fortified earthen works

Rath (Magic plane), a plane in the Magic trading card game

Rath (chariot), a ceremonial chariot or wagon in India, sometimes multi-storied

Rath Yatra or Ratha Yatra, a festival in Orissa state, India from rath meaning chariot

Rath is a cattle breed of Zebu stock

Rath can be mimic of a last name.

Places

Rath, India, a town in Uttar Pradesh, India

Rath, County Clare, a townland and civil parish in County Clare, Ireland

Rath Cemetery, a cemetery in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland

Rath, Bedburg, a subdivision of Bedburg municipality, Germany

Rath, Düsseldorf, a borough of Düsseldorf, Germany

Rath, Cologne, a borough of Cologne, Germany

Rath, Nörvenich, a subdivision of Nörvenich municipality, Germany

Rath, Oberösterreich, a village in Oberösterreich, Austria

People

Rath (Oriya Surname) one of the surnames of Oriya/Utkal Brahmins from the Indian state of Orissa

Rath, surname given to orphaned children in Cambodia

Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat killed in Paris

Gerhard vom Rath, a German mineralogist

Gustav vom Rath, the little known father of Ernst vom Rath and a minor government official

Wilhelm von Rath, Saxon cavalry officer

Daniela Rath, (1977-), German high jumper

David Rath, Minister of Health for the Czech Republic

Elfriede Moser-Rath, Austrian ethnologist

Matthias Rath, controversial German physician and vitamin entrepreneur

Rachel Rath, actress

Wilhelm Rath (1892–1967), German politician (WBWB, later FDP/DVP), see :de:Wilhelm Rath

Billy Rath (living), American musician

Travis Rath (living), Founder of Tracon, and American Industrialist

Companies

Rath Packing Company, a defunct meat packer formerly located in Waterloo, Iowa

Michael Rath Trombones, English custom trombone maker

Fictional characters

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Rath, a demon who has fought against the Justice League of America

Rath Illuser, the Dragon Knight of Fire and one of the main protaginists from the Dragon Knights manga

A creature mentioned in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

Rath, a new alien transformation in the third season of

Rath is a name of one of the star characters of Mummies Alive! voiced by Scott McNeil.

References

Category:Lists of people sharing a surname

Name	Ludger Beerbaum
Fullname	Ludger Beerbaum
Nationality
Discipline	Show jumping
Birth date	August 26, 1963
Birth place	Detmold, West Germany
Height ft	6
Height in	2
Weight lb	176

}} }} Ludger Beerbaum (born August 26, 1963 in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an internationally successful German rider who competes in show jumping, and has been ranked the No. 1 Show Jumper in the world by the FEI on multiple occasions.

Early life and competitive career

Beerbaum was born in Detmold, Germany. In school he took Business Studies, but eventually gave it up for a career in show jumping.

Beerbaum began riding on a Highland Pony at the age of 8. He had a very successful career as a Junior and Young Rider, which continued into his adulthood. His most notable accomplishments include winning 4 Olympic Golds (his first at age 25) and numerous European and World Championship medals.

On Sunday September 21, 2008, at the Samsung Super League Final in Barcelona, Beerbaum was a member of the winning German Nations Cup team. He was awarded Leading Rider of the 2008 Super League, along with 50,000 CHF ($46,000). In the Final he rode the nine year old Westphalian gelding, All Inclusive NRW to a double clear round, and was one of only two riders to do so, his team mate Marco Kutscher being the other.

Family

Ludger Beerbaum is the oldest of 4 children, his siblings being Ruth, Monika, and show jumper Markus Beerbaum. He has two children: Alexander and stepdaughter Vivien. He is also brother-in-law to Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum.

Top horses

Goldfever: 1991 chestnut Hanoverian stallion (by Grosso Z)

Ratina Z: 1982 bay Hanoverian mare (Ramiro Z x Almé Z)

Gladdys S: 1992 chestnut Westphalian mare (Grandeur x Apart)

PS Priamos: 1982 chestnut Westphalian gelding (Pilot x Direx)

Enorm: 1997 bay Hanoverian gelding (Escudo I x Calypso II)

Couleur Rubin: 1996 chestnut Oldenburg stallion (by Cordalme Z)

L'Espoir: 1996 chestnut Zangersheide gelding (by Landwind II)

All Inclusive: 1999 bay Westphalian gelding (Arpeggio x Phantom)

Doping Offense

At the 2004 Olympic Games, Beerbaum and his mount, Goldfever, managed to finish with only 4 penalty points, helping Germany earn the team gold medal. However, following the competition, Goldfever tested positive for the prohibited substance betamethasone. The International Equestrian Federation found Beerbaum guilty of breaking the rules, stripping both him and his German team of their medals, dropping Germany down to bronze. Beerbaum believed the substance to have been present in an ointment administered to the horse due to a skin irritation, and the FEI agreed that the substance provided no competitive advantage. However, in accordance to the rule, Beerbaum was disqualified.

Record

Olympic Games

Team Gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games: 17.25 penalties (The Freak)

Individual Gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games: 0 penalties (Classic Touch)

Team Gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games: 1.75 penalties (Ratina Z)

Team Gold medal at the 2000 Olympic Games: 15 penalties (Goldfever)

Disqualified, losing team gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games—See "Doping Offense" above (Goldfever)

World Championships

Bronze medal team, individually 5th place at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany (L'Espoir)

4th place team, 22nd individually at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain (Gladdys S)

Gold medal team, 5th individually at the 1998 World Equestrian Games in Rome, Italy (Priamos)

Gold medal team, 4th individually at the 1994 World Equestrian Games in The Hague, Netherlands (Ratina Z)

Silver medal team, 73rd individually at the 1990 World Equestrian Games in Stockholm, Sweden (Gazelle)

European Championships

Team Silver, Individual Bronze at the 2007 CH-EU in Mannheim, Germany (Goldfever 3)

Team Gold, Individual Silver at the 2003 CH-EU in Donaueschingen, Germany (Goldfever 3)

Team Bronze, Individual Gold at the 2001 CH-EU in Arnhem, Netherlands (Gladdys S)

Team Gold, Individually 26th at the 1999 CH-EU in Hickstead, Britain (Champion du Lys)

Team Gold, Individual Gold at the 1997 CH-EU in Mannheim, Germany (Ratina Z)

Team 4th, Individually 29th at the 1993 CH-EU in Gijon, Spain (Rush On)

Team 5th, Individually 21st at the 1991 CH-EU in La Baule, France (Grand Plaisir)

Team 5th, Individually 23rd at the 1987 CH-EU in St. Gallen, Switzerland (Wiener Domspatz)

Team Bronze, Individual Bronze at the 1984 CH-EU-Y in Cervia, Italy (Wittersfernde)

World Cup Final

6th place at the 2009 World Cup Final in Las Vegas, USA

12th place at the 2005 World Cup Final in Las Vegas, USA (Couleur Rubin)

8th place at the 2003 World Cup Final in Las Vegas, USA (Goldfever 3)

2nd place at the 2002 World Cup Final in Leipzig, Germany (Gladdys S)

3rd place at the 1998 World Cup Final in Helsinki, Finland (P.S. Priamos)

1st place at the 1993 World Cup Final in Göteborg, Sweden (Ratina Z)

Other major achievements

Multiple No. 1 Show Jumper ranking by the FEI

8-time winner of the German masters (1988, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004)

3-time Rider of the Year (2001, 2002, 2003)

3-time winner of the Grand Prix of Aachen (1996 Ratina Z; 2002 and 2003 Goldfever)

Winner of the Bambi prize in 1992

Winner of the 2002 CN International at the Spruce Meadows Masters

References

External links

Horse doping scandal puts Germany's equestrian team in tatters

Official website

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