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

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 churches in neighbouring Bochum and for the church of St. Bonifatius in Herne, of which only the tower is preserved after severe war damage. According to his planning, the new building of the Protestant Johanneskirche in Eickel was built in 1895/1896.

Wikipedia: Christuskirche (Wanne) (DE), Website

The Hansa-Haus in 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 also acted as the client. The expressionist brick building belongs to a series of other residential and commercial buildings built at the end of the 1920s in the area of today's city of Herne, including perhaps the most important the Sparkasse Wanne-Eickel or the publishing house of the adjacent Herner Anzeiger (Bebelstraße 18).

Wikipedia: Hansa-Haus (Herne) (DE)

Herne station was opened in the inner city of Herne in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1847 together with the Cologne-Minden trunk line. It was located between the village of Herne, which had about 1,000 inhabitants, and the moated castle of Schloss Strünkede and was south of the current station on Von-der-Heydt-Strasse. It soon had a connection to the more southerly city of Bochum, which until 14 years later did not have its own station. For this reason the station was called Herne-Bochum until 1855.

Wikipedia: Herne station (EN)

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

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 executed 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 ornate in the Ruhr area.

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

The Heimatmuseum Unser Fritz is one of the three locations of the Emschertal Museum on the social history of Herne and Wanne-Eickel. In the year of the founding of Wanne-Eickel (1926) 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 of Unser Fritz.

Wikipedia: Heimat- und Naturkunde-Museum Wanne-Eickel (DE), Website

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 Herne-Süd pastoral association and the parish church of the St. Konrad-von-Parzham community of Herne. Today it is the community church of the St. Dionysius community of the Deanery Emschertal in the Archdiocese of Paderborn.

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

The LWL-Museum für Archäologie Westfälisches Landesmuseum in Herne is a state museum of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL). It focuses its exhibitions on 250,000 years of human history in Westphalia. In the research laboratory, visitors can understand the methods used by archaeologists to investigate the traces of the past.

Wikipedia: LWL-Museum für Archäologie (DE), Website

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

Wikipedia: Lutherkirche (Herne-Wanne) (DE)

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

Wikipedia: Amtsgericht Herne (DE)