PROPHECY FEST 2025 • BALVER HÖHLE, GERMANY • 11.-13. September 2025
PROPHECY FEST 2025
BALVER HÖHLE, GERMANY
11.-13. September 2025
ACCOMMODATIONS
Campsite Cave of Balve:
Tents can be pitched in the immediate vicinity of the Cave of Balve. This site has only the most basic facilities, such as toilets and taps. Every person staying on the campsite or in one of the car parks needs a camping pass. In addition, there is the comfort pass, which offers faster access to the festival site and the opportunity to shower in a nearby facility.
The site is officially open from Thursday to Sunday noon. We kindly ask you not to arrive earlier.
You can bring your own food and drinks, but we ask that you clean up afterwards in the interests of the environment and our good relations with the town of Balve.
Hostels/small hotels in Balve and the surrounding region:
– Accommodation in the Hoennetal
– Balver Land– Accommodations near Sundern
– Youth Hostel
– Nordic Park
– Youth Hostel Soest
– Youth Hostel Möhnesee
Freizeitpark Sorpesee:
Sorpesee (8 km distance from Balve) is a holiday park with a variety of accommodations, e.g. a camping site, wooden huts or so-calles “Trollhotels”.
PARKING & CAMPING REGULATIONS
For all car parks, a pass (PP, RVP) or access fee (DP) is required. Once all parking spaces on a car park are occupied, visitors are required to move their vehicles to public car parks.
A. Permanent Parking
Location: On the site of the old quarry (see map)
Access: Via a marked road after the entrance checkpoint to the main site.
Permitted vehicles: Cars, motorcycles
Price: 10 Euro for a “Permanent Parking Pass” (please have the exact amount ready in cash)
Passes available at: Only at the check-in
Parking duration: For the entire duration of the festival. It is possible to leave the car park in the meantime, but then a new “Permanent Parking Pass” needs to be purchased for 10 Euro for re-entry.
Distance to the tent site: approx. 750 metres
B. Daily Parking
Location: Directly at the entrance area before the bridge on the right (see map)
Access: Directly to the right after turning off the main road, before the entrance checkpoint
Permitted vehicles: Cars, motorcycles
Price: 5 Euro per entry (please have the exact amount ready in cash)
Passes available at: Directly at the entrance of the daily car park
Parking duration: During a festival day until after the last concert. It is possible to leave the parking lot in the meantime, but with each new entry again 5 Euro need to be paid. A fee of 5 Euro will also be charged for any vehicle that is still on the daily car park the next morning
C. Recreational Vehicle Parking
Location: Immediately to the left after the entrance checkpoint
Approach: Immediately after the entrance checkpoint on the left as signposted
Permitted vehicles: Large vehicles such as camping vans, minibuses, motor-homes, caravans
Price: 50 Euro in online pre-sale or 60 Euro at check-in (each incl. 1 Tent Site Pass)
Pass available at: Available online in advance! Limited to 75 pitches. Recreational vehicle passes will only be available at the check-in, if passes remain in stuck after the advance sale
Special feature: Without a pass, all such vehicles are required to use public parking spaces
Additional information: The recreational vehicle pass includes a tent site pass for one person
Important: The recreational vehicle pass is valid only for the vehicle. Awnings and pavilions are not permitted!
Parking duration: For the duration of the festival until the next morning.
D. Bicycle Parking
Location: After the entrance checkpoint to the left, next to recreational vehicle parking (see map)
Access: After the entrance checkpoint to the left
Permitted vehicles: Bicycles, e-scooters
Price: Free of charge
Parking duration: Any time until the morning after the end of the festival
E. Tent Site
Location: On the meadow (see map)
Directions: After the entrance checkpoint, take the second entrance on the left, follow the signs
Permitted vehicles: none
Price: 15 Euro in online pre-sale or 20 Euro at the check-in
Pass issue: Available in online presale and at check-in
Distance to permanent parking: approx. 750 metres
Special feature: The campsite can only be reached on foot
Important: There is no possibility to stop between the entrance checkpoint and permanent parking
Recommendation: Arrive with luggage as light as possible
Includes access to the indoor swimming pool of “Hallenbad Balve” (In der Murmke 9, 58802 Balve) Saturday Sep 7 from 9:00 to 9:45 and to the showers from 10:00 to 12:00
TRAVELING
Balve is situated in the center of Germany between Dortmund, Cologne, Frankfurt and Hannover. To be exact: in the Sauerland, 50km to the southeast of the Ruhr Area.
Nearby Airports:
Frankfurt/Main, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Münster/Osnabrück, Frankfurt/Hahn, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Düsseldorf, Weeze/Niederrhein, Kassel. From there, you get access via rental car or train. There are direct train connections to Balve via Deutsche Bahn.
Balver Höhle
Helle 2
58802 Balve, Germany