12 Sights in Herne, Germany (with Map and Images)

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Explore interesting sights in Herne, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 12 sights are available in Herne, Germany.

Sightseeing Tours in Herne

1. Mittelpunkt des Ruhrgebiets

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The Ruhr, also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population density of 2,800/km2 and a population of over 5 million (2017), it is the largest urban area in Germany. It consists of several large cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to the west, and Lippe to the north. In the southwest it borders the Bergisches Land. It is considered part of the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region of more than 10 million people, which is the third largest in Western Europe, behind only London and Paris.

Wikipedia: Ruhr (EN)

2. Hansa-Haus

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The Hansa-Haus at the intersection of Bebelstraße (12–16) and Neustraße (19–21) in Herne is a listed building. It was built in 1927/1928 according to a design by the architect Karl Veuhoff, who was also the client. The expressionist clinker brick building is one of a series of other residential and commercial buildings that were built at the end of the 1920s on the territory of today's city of Herne, including perhaps the most important of these, the Sparkasse Wanne-Eickel and the publishing house of the adjacent Herner Anzeiger (Bebelstraße 18).

Wikipedia: Hansa-Haus (Herne) (DE)

3. Christuskirche Wanne

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The Christuskirche is a Protestant church in the district of Wanne in the city of Herne, at Hauptstraße 245. The neo-Gothic building was built in 1886 and 1887 according to a design by the Barmen architect Gerhard August Fischer. Previously, Fischer had already been responsible for several new church buildings in neighbouring Bochum and for the church of St. Boniface in Herne, of which only the tower remains after severe war damage. In 1895/1896 the new Protestant St. John's Church in Eickel was built according to his plans.

Wikipedia: Christuskirche (Wanne) (DE), Website

4. Seilscheibe

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Seilscheibe

The König-Ludwig-Trasse is a former railway line in the Ruhr area in the towns of Castrop-Rauxel and Recklinghausen, which connected the King Ludwig I/II and IV/V collieries with the coal loading port on the Rhine-Herne Canal in Pöppinghausen. The route has been developed over a length of 2.5 km from the harbour to Orthlohstraße as a pedestrian and cycle path and was opened on this section in December 2008. The route is to be rededicated until its end at the Blumenthal slag heap in Oer-Erkenschwick.

Wikipedia: König-Ludwig-Trasse (DE)

5. Cranger Kirmes

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The Cranger Kirmes is a funfair in Germany, located near the Rhine–Herne Canal in Crange in the city of Herne located in Metro Ruhr. It is the biggest funfair in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the second biggest fair in Germany, only behind the Munich Oktoberfest. In 2008 there were 4.7 million visitors. At an area of only 110,000 square metres (1,200,000 sq ft) and 500 show businesses it is called the "most overcrowded fair of the world".

Wikipedia: Cranger Kirmes (EN), Website, Opening Hours

6. St. Marien

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St. Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Herne-Baukau, Germany. Today it is the parish church of the St. Dionysius parish of the deanery of Emschertal in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. The church is a neo-Gothic building, largely built in its present form in the years 1907–1909 according to designs by Johannes Franziskus Klomp. Thomas Parent calls the brick façade of the church probably the most artistic in the Ruhr area.

Wikipedia: St. Marien (Herne-Baukau) (DE)

7. Heimatmuseum Unser Fritz

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The Museum of Local History Unser Fritz is one of the three locations of the Emschertal Museum on the social history of Herne and Wanne-Eickel. In 1926, the year the town of Wanne-Eickel was founded, it was established as a local history museum. After several changes of location, it is now housed in the former elementary school of the now Herne district Unser Fritz.

Wikipedia: Heimatmuseum Unser Fritz (DE), Website

8. St. Konrad

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The Catholic Church of St. Konrad von Parzham, located in the south of the city of Herne, was one of the two churches in the pastoral association Herne-Süd and the parish church of the St. Konrad von Parzham parish of Herne. Today it is the parish church of the St. Dionysius parish of the deanery of Emschertal in the Archdiocese of Paderborn.

Wikipedia: St. Konrad (Herne-Süd) (DE), Website

9. Lutherkirche Wanne

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The Lutherkirche is a Protestant church in the Herne district of Wanne, which was consecrated in 1908. With the Cranger Church, it belongs to the district of the Wanne-Eickel parish, in the Herne church district of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.

Wikipedia: Lutherkirche (Herne-Wanne) (DE), Website

10. Amtsgericht Herne

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Herne is the seat of the district court of Herne, which is responsible for part of the district-free city of Herne. The districts of Wanne and Eickel belong to the judicial district of the district court of Herne-Wanne.

Wikipedia: Amtsgericht Herne (DE)

11. St. Pius

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St. Pius Church is a Catholic church in Herne, Germany. It is located in Herne-Pöppinghausen and is today the parish church of the St. Dionysius parish of the deanery of Emschertal in the Archdiocese of Paderborn.

Wikipedia: St. Pius (Herne) (DE)

12. Sankt Dreifaltigkeit

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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Trinity in Herne-Holthausen, Börsinghauser Straße 62, is a community church of the St. Dionysius community of the Deanery Emschertal in the Archdiocese of Padersborn.

Wikipedia: St. Dreifaltigkeit (Herne) (DE)

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