Danhostel Herning Vandrerhjem
DANHOSTEL Herning is located centrally in the heart of Mid-Jutland, within reasonable distances of the major sights: Legoland, the lion park at Givskud, Tivoli Friheden and the old town in Århus. The town of Herning contains many attractions such as the photo museum, the textile museum, art galleries, the historical museum and the Japanese garden
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Herning is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Ringkjøbing County on the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 542 km², and has a total population of 59,277 (2005). Its mayor is Lars Krarup, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party. Neighboring municipalities are Brande and Nørre-Snede to the southeast, Ikast to the east, Aulum-Haderup to the north, Trehøje and Videbæk to the west, and Aaskov to the southwest.
Herning is home to Messecenter Herning, the largest exhibition centre in Scandinavia, which gives the town a reputation for its many trade fairs. The town is also home to sculptor Ingvar Cronhammar's unique monumental work "Elia". It is a black-painted, 60 m dome with four 10 m wide stairways inset into its surface at the earth's cardinal points. These lead to an observation platform overlooking the surrounding heath, as well as to the sculpture's 30.000 cubic meter resonance chamber. Four steel columns rise to a height of 30m over the landscape; they are capped by red domes, lit from below and equipped to attract lightning. In the center of the sculpture, equidistant to the four columns, is a fifth column— a gas burner— about two meters below the viewing platform. The gas burner shoots a pillar of flame about one meter wide and 8.4m high up between the pillars at random intervals controlled by a computer. The sculpture is located in the town near the Herning Art Museum.
