Herne

Herne is a city of 156,000 people in the area. Part of the city escaped the extensive bombing that destroyed other Rugr cities in World War II, so there are still many historical buildings, especially in the Herne-Mitte district, many of them from the Wilhelminian era.
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  • Type: City with 156,000 residents
  • Description: town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Also known as: Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Herne station and Schloss Strünkede.

Railway station
was opened in the inner city of Herne in the German state of 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.

Town hall
Photo: Mbdortmund, GFDL.
is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Riemke and Sodingen.

Suburb
is a major district of the city of , Ruhr Area, , Germany. Within Bochum, borders the districts of Bergen-Hiltrop, and Hofstede.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Suburb
is a quarter of the Westphalian city of in . It is north of the city centre. has a tram line running from to .

Herne

Latitude
51.538° or 51° 32′ 17″ north
Longitude
7.22° or 7° 13′ 12″ east
Population
156,000
Elevation
67 metres (220 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE HEE
Open location code
9F39G6Q9+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21315295
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2905891
Wiki­data ID
Q2904
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Herne” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Herne
  • Arabic: هيرنه
  • Aragonese: Herne
  • Armenian: Հեռնե
  • Armenian: Հերնե
  • Arpitan: Herne
  • Asturian: Herne
  • Azerbaijani: Herne
  • Balinese: Herne, Rhein-Westphalia Kalér
  • Bashkir: Херне
  • Basque: Herne
  • Bavarian: Herne
  • Belarusian: Гернэ
  • Belarusian: Хернэ
  • Bengali: হার্ন
  • Breton: Herne
  • Bulgarian: Херне
  • Catalan: Herne
  • Cebuano: Herne
  • Cebuano: Kreisfreie Stadt Herne
  • Central Kurdish: ھێرن ئەڵمانیا
  • Chinese: Herne
  • Chinese: 赫內
  • Chinese: 黑尔讷
  • Chinese: 黑爾訥
  • Corsican: Herne
  • Croatian: Herne
  • Czech: Herne
  • Danish: Herne
  • Dimli (individual language): Herne
  • Dutch: Herne
  • Esperanto: Herne
  • Estonian: Herne
  • Finnish: Herne
  • French: Herne
  • Friulian: Herne
  • Galician: Herne
  • Georgian: ჰერნე
  • German: Herne
  • Greek: Χέρνε
  • Gujarati: હર્ને
  • Hebrew: הרנה
  • Hindi: हेर्न
  • Hungarian: Herne
  • Icelandic: Herne
  • Ido: Herne
  • Indonesian: Herne
  • Interlingua: Herne
  • Interlingue: Herne
  • Irish: Herne
  • Italian: Herne
  • Japanese: ヘルネ
  • Kannada: ಹೆರ್ನ್
  • Kazakh: Херне
  • Kirghiz: Херне
  • Kongo: Herne
  • Korean: 헤르네
  • Kotava: Herne
  • Kurdish: Herne
  • Ladin: Herne
  • Latin: Herna
  • Latin: Villa Haranni
  • Latvian: Herne
  • Ligurian: Herne
  • Limburgan: Herne
  • Lithuanian: Hernė
  • Low German: Herne
  • Luxembourgish: Herne
  • Macedonian: Херне
  • Malagasy: Herne
  • Malay: Herne
  • Marathi: हॅर्ने
  • Min Nan Chinese: Herne
  • Minangkabau: Herne
  • Narom: Herne
  • Neapolitan: Herne
  • Northern Frisian: Herne
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Herne
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Herne
  • Norwegian: Herne
  • Occitan (post 1500): Herne
  • Ossetian: Херне
  • Persian: هرنه
  • Picard: Herne
  • Piemontese: Herne
  • Polish: Herne
  • Portuguese: Herne
  • Romanian: Herne
  • Romansh: Herne
  • Russian: Херне
  • Sardinian: Herne
  • Scots: Herne
  • Scottish Gaelic: Herne
  • Serbian: Herne
  • Serbian: Херне
  • Serbo-Croatian: Herne
  • Sicilian: Herne
  • Silesian: Herne
  • Sinhala: හර්න්
  • Slovak: Herne
  • Slovenian: Herne
  • South Azerbaijani: هرنه
  • Spanish: Herne
  • Swahili: Herne
  • Swedish: Herne, Tyskland
  • Swedish: Herne
  • Swiss German: Herne
  • Tamil: ஹெர்ன், வட ரைன்-வெச்ட்ஃபாலியா
  • Tatar: Һерне
  • Telugu: హెర్న్
  • Thai: เฮอร์น
  • Turkish: Herne, Kuzey Ren-Vestfalya
  • Turkish: Herne
  • Ukrainian: Герне
  • Urdu: ہیرنے
  • Venetian: Herne
  • Vietnamese: Herne
  • Vlaams: Herne
  • Volapük: Herne
  • Walloon: Herne
  • Waray (Philippines): Herne, Alemanya
  • Welsh: Herne
  • Western Frisian: Herne
  • Western Panjabi: ہرنے
  • Wolof: Herne
  • Wu Chinese: 黑尔讷
  • Zulu: Herne

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