For a small epoch, Herne was known primarily by one term: as the "city of hammer drills. Before the Second World War, Herne owed its second name and fame to the entrepreneur Heinrich Flottmann, who constructed a single machine from hammer and iron - an important step for the modernization of mining. Today, other focal points determine life in the Emscher city. The Flottmann halls on Flottmannstrasse are still one of them - but they have long since ceased to be an industrial workplace. Today, the region knows the Flottmann Halls as a cultural center where contemporary visual artists find plenty of space and light for paintings and sculptures, where well-known cabaret artists and comedians make a stop, where new circus, puppet theater or modern dance is performed, where sometimes contemporary, sometimes popular music can be heard and where diverse insights into the independent theater landscape are possible. Flottmannhallen