11 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 11 sights are available in Herne, Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Herne1. Mittelpunkt des Ruhrgebiets
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 Europe, behind only London and Paris.
2. Christuskirche Wanne
The Christuskirche is a Protestant church in the district of Wanne in the city of Herne, on 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. Boniface in Herne, of which only the tower remains after severe war damage. According to his plans, the new building of the Protestant St. John's Church in Eickel was also built in 1895/1896.
3. Hansa-Haus
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 brick building is one of a series of other residential and commercial buildings that were 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).
4. Herne
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.
5. Cranger Kirmes
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".
6. St. Marien
St. Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Herne-Baukau. 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.
7. Heimat- und Naturkunde-Museum Wanne-Eickel
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 set up as a local history museum. After several changes of location, it is now housed in the former elementary school of the now Herner district of Unser Fritz.
8. St. Konrad
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 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.
9. Lutherkirche Wanne
The Lutherkirche is a Protestant church in the Wanne district of Herne, which was consecrated in 1908. Together with the Cranger Church, it belongs to the district of Crange in the parish of Wanne-Eickel, in the church district of Herne of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.
10. Amtsgericht Herne
Herne is the seat of the Herne District Court, 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.
11. Kreuzkirche
The Kreuzkirche in Herne-Mitte is a church building of the Evangelical Kreuzkirchengemeinde in Herne. The church is also a venue for the Early Music Days in Herne, which take place annually in November.
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