By Air

The closest major airport is Dortmund Airport (DTM / EDLW).This airport has international and domestic flights from Dortmund, Germany and is about 28 km from the center of Herne, Germany.Another major airport is Dusseldorf International Airport (DUS / EDDL), which has international and domestic flights from Dusseldorf, Germany and is 43 km from Herne, Germany.

By Train

Herne decreed by the merger of formerly independent cities of Herne Wanne-Eickel and 1975 on two stations.Because of the greater importance of the station in Wanne-Eickel this was the pan-Eickel station of the new city of Herne.While the station Herne Herne in the city center district allows local connections is through the maintenance of IC-trains of the railway station in the borough tub also be linked to long-distance traffic.Both stations are situated on the railway line Duisburg-Dortmund.The railway station Herne was in 1847 by the Cologne-Minden railway opened.

By Trambus

Public transport (public transport) serve several regional and regional express rail lines of the DB, Abellio Rail and North Western railway, the S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr with lines to Recklinghausen , Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen / Essen.All lines run at uniform prices within the transport association Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) : U- city railway line U35 of the Bochum-Gelsenkirchen trams AG ( BOGESTRA ) between the terminals Herne Castle Strünkede and Bochum Hustadt (TQ), tram line 306 of BOGESTRA in the districts tub and Eickel between the terminals pan-Eickel station and Bochum Central Station, buses tram Herne Castrop-Rauxel, the BOGESTRA and Vestischen trams GmbH planned in the 1970 extension of the U35 in direction Recklinghausen is not likely for financial reasons longer implemented, one in integrated transportation plan (IGVP) the government of North Rhine-Westphalia economic cost-benefit analysis concludes that the costs are greater for this measure than the benefits (Rating: RB Arnsberg, projects track).

By Road

Through the downtown area Hernes lead the federal highways 42 ( Kamp-Lintfort - Dortmund ) and 43 ( Munster - Wuppertal ).Both intersect at the center of the metropolitan area at the junction Herne. Also leads the federal highway 226 Bochum-Gelsenkirchen in the western basin districts Eickel and through the downtown area.The former federal highway 51 Recklinghausen, Bochum, led by the Municipality in Herne-Mitte.However, it was rededicated to the state road 551 and is thus no longer the responsibility of the federal government, but the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.The B 51 has been replaced throughout the city by the A 43rd The entire road network has a total length of approximately 390 kilometers.

By Ferry

Herne has a river port on the Rhine-Herne Canal, connecting the Rhine and on the Dortmund-Ems Canal to the Ems and the Midland Canal.

Emschertal Museum, LWL Museum of Archaeology, Gysenberg, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Gysenberg park, Herne theater

Emschertal Museum

The city of Emschertalmuseum Herne consists of three locations: Castle Strunkede, Stadtische Galerie im Schlosspark Strunkede and home and natural history museum pan-Eickel.It is one of the largest regional museums in the Ruhr area and displays extensive collections of local history, natural history and art.The foundation for the collections presented the first museum director Karl Brandt. Above all, the things of daily use such as coins, locks, stoves and utility ceramics, armor, guns and other weapons, cabinets, chests, table and chairs, farmhouse beds, and other items of home decor from the days of the Middle Ages to the industrial transformation as well as sand, sun -, mechanical watches and precision instruments from the 17th and 18 Century, making the living conditions in the region Emscher touchable.As a museum of the city's founding in 1926 interested citizens of pan-Eickel founded the museum after several moves and a checkered history since in the former elementary school of the district, "Unser Fritz" housed. It has exhibits from the working world of mining, inland shipping and transport companies as well as the domestic life of the Ruhr and natural history finds from the surrounding area.

LWL Museum of Archaeology

is a National Museum of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL).It represents the 250,000-year human history in Westphalia in the center of his exhibitions.In the research laboratory, visitors can understand the methods by which archaeologists study the remains of the past.The museum was on 28 Opened in March 2003.The permanent exhibition takes a tour through history 250,000 years in Westphalia.The presentation is oriented at an archaeological landscape: from found objects from the last Ice Age to today, the exhibits are displayed in chronological order in their find context.Like on a bridge in an excavation site of the trail through the museum, visitors to various sites that are presented by replicas, pictures, films and the corresponding noise.Here are typical sites such as graves, wells, buildings, remnants of the display and presentation not only things and their history, but also the archaeological work.

Gysenberg

is an approximately 120 m high hill in the southern city of Herne, near the border with Bochum Gerthe.The Gysenberg one of the Castroper heights.The natural landscape is the main unit Westenhellweg.The Gysenberg is not really a mountain for the purposes of a survey of his surroundings but a spur of the mountain Ardey of Bochum Gerthe ago, almost like a plateau in the Emschertal protrudes.Therefore he makes from the perspective of the valley Emscher impression as a mountain. He is around 120 meters, not even the highest point Hernes.He is one of the Castroper heights.On it is the Gysenberg forest, a mixed forest book with a very old book inventory.In its lower part there is a source horizons with multiple sources to the glory river in the east and the mill stream dine in the West.The creek runs fame after a few 100 meters piped under the district Sodingen through, on its northern edge, he united with the Sodinger wastewater channeled Landwehr stream flows to.The mill stream flows for about half a mile from the popular park Hiltroper coming Ostbach.

St. Joseph Catholic Church

is the second church on the site, located at the Roonstrasse in Herne Horsthausen and is the parish church of St. Joseph parish in the pastoral group Herne Northern Deanery of the Emschertal archdiocese of Paderborn.The sparsely populated area in Horsthausen experienced as the other areas of the Ruhr by the northward pulling mining in the last third of the 19 Century, a rapid population growth.Thus the mother churches were forced to create Pfarrvikarien to enable people to actively participate in worship and community life.The Lambertus Church in Castrop pfarrte in 1900 from the St. Joseph community.By 1896, they bought from the farmer Schulte am Esch land to the south side of Roonstrabe.

Gysenberg park

is an amusement park in Herne.It was in 1970 as a district park Gysenberg founded and was the first park of its kind in the Ruhr area.Operators is the Revierpark Gysenberg Herne GmbH, owned equally by the city of Herne, and Ruhr Regional Association are.The park covers an area of ​​31 hectares.The parking area is located south of the city district Sodingen Hernes.It extends below the Gysenberg before its northern slope.The lawns of the park, reaching to the forest Gysenberg. Before 1970 the area was in agricultural use.The running east-west main route is the route of the former railway connecting the mines Mont Cenis.

Herne theater

Herne features with the small theater on their own, founded in 1995 ensemble that had worked since 1977 at various theater projects in the Ruhr.In November 1998, the ensemble opens its own theater.It has 50 seats.Until 1970 there was already a theater in Herne, the theater room, which was closed at the time.Game plan for a small theater, and tabloid herne include serious works and children's theater.Another site of theater performances since January 2004 under the leadership of Christian Stratmann standing moon palace of pan-Eickel.He is so far the oldest community theater in the Ruhr.Behind the Art Nouveau facade of the former municipal hall building so far six comedies were performed in which the actors embody their roles in a solid ensemble known types of the terrain.

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