One day in Herne! 🇩🇪

Herne is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen. Herne is a suburban town of 156,621 inhabitants.

What to see in one day in Herne?

•With a length of around 900 m, the Bahnhofstrasse pedestrian zone represents the backbone of Hern's main center. Together with the secondary areas, it is the largest shopping area in the city. Goods are offered on a total of over 100,000 square meters of sales space.

•The St. Boniface Church is a Catholic parish church in the city center of Herne. In Herne, originally rural and Protestant since the Reformation, it was the original church of the new Catholic foundation as a result of industrialization. Today it is the parish and community church of the St. Dionysius community of the Emschertal deanery in the Archdiocese of Paderborn.

•The Herne town hall has been the seat of the city's council and administration since 1912. Several forerunners of the town hall were built in Herne in 1873/1874, but after just a few years the buildings no longer met the demands of the rapidly growing city and were used for other purposes.

•The Kreuzkirche is a church building of the Evangelical Kreuzkirchengemeinde in Herne, Mitte district. The church is also a venue for the Early Music Days, which take place annually in November.

•The LWL Museum for Archeology and Culture, Westphalian State Museum in Herne is a state museum of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL). It places the 250,000 years of human history in Westphalia at the center of its exhibitions. In the research laboratory, visitors can understand the methods archaeologists use to examine traces of the past.

•Strünkede Castle is a moated castle in the Baukau district of Herne in the middle of an extensive castle park. Its name goes back to the Middle High German word “strunk” for “cleared tree”.

•The Wanne-Eickel town hall in Wanne is a listed building. The office and administration building at “Rathausstrasse 6” was built in 1903 and 1904 as the office building of the Wanne office and was inaugurated on January 19, 1905. The Wann official architect Otto Zahn was responsible for the design; the construction was carried out by August Franke. The Wanne-Eickel town hall was entered in the city of Herne's list of monuments on December 12, 1985 (monument no. A 18).

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