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Kiel. For other uses, see Kiel (disambiguation). Kiel ( / kiːl /; German: [kiːl] ⓘ) is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately 90 kilometres (56 mi) north of Hamburg, and about the same distance south of the Danish border.
Kiel is a vibrant and maritime city with a long shipbuilding and naval tradition. Explore its modern city centre, the Kiel Fjord, the port, the shipyards and the Kiel Week regatta.
- Kiel Week
- Kiellinie
- German Submarine U-995
- Marine-Ehrenmal Laboe
- Schifffahrtsmuseum Kiel
- Kieler Rathaus
- Nikolaikirche
- Zoological Museum of Kiel University
- Schleusenanlage Kiel-Holtenau
- Kunsthalle Kiel
The world’s biggest sailing event kicks off during the last week of June, bringing millions of visitors and some 4,000 ships to the city from across Germany and abroad. Going back to 1882, Kiel Week is a Volksfest at its heart, and there’s no better time to soak up the city’s maritime atmosphere and get some amazing photographs. The are 2000 events...
On the west bank of the Kiel Fjord is a waterfront promenade beginning in the north at the naval base. The route takes you past rows of boathouses for rowers, sailors and canoeists as well as the Heimholtz Centre for Ocean Research, which has an outdoor seal aquarium. During Kiel Week the promenade has a real bustle to it as there are concert stage...
On a beach on the eastern lip of the fjord at Laboe is a wartime U-boat that has been turned into a technical museum. You can get there from Kiel on the 100 or 102 buses. U-995 was built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg in 1943. The submarine was damaged in 1944 and spent the remainder of the war at a dock in Trondheim. After the war it was commissioned ...
You can easily spot this landmark several kilometres away at the Kiellinie. The Naval Memorial is a tower 72 metres high, built between 1927 and 1936. The tower has a concrete frame and brick cladding, and was first erected to commemorate sailors killed during the First World War. Following the Second World War the structure is now a monument to pe...
Right on the water, the city’s Gothic Revival fish auction house was repurposed as a maritime museum in 1978. The interior has been whitewashed and in this airy space is an exhibition on Kiel’s fishing and seafaring history. One exhibition here charts the construction of the Kiel Canal, which was completed in 1895 and connected the North Sea with t...
The City Hall is an indelible part of Kiel’s skyline thanks to its 106-metre tower. When this Art Nouveau edifice was constructed during the 1900s it was actually in the suburbs to the west of the Old Town. One look at the tower and you’ll know where the idea came from, as it bears a striking resemblance to St Mark’s Campanile in Venice. At the tim...
The city’s principal church has been at this location on Alter Markt since the 13th century. In its time it has come through a lot of changes. The most dramatic were in the 1870s when it was updated in a Gothic Revival style, and again after the war when modern materials like reinforced concrete were used in the reconstruction. But although the app...
The building for this museum was designed in the 1870s by one of the eminent architects of the day, Martin Gropius, great uncle of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. The museum’s collections are much older, and were first gathered in the 1600s. An exhibit you won’t soon forget is in the main hall, where there are 13 whale skeletons and massive blue an...
The busiest man-made waterway in the world (busier than Suez or Panama) begins just a few kilometres north of the centre of Kiel at Holtenau. More than 120 years after it opened, the Kiel Canal is used by 31,000 ships and 15,000 recreational boats, cutting 460 kilometres from a journey around the Jutland Peninsula. The easternmost locks at Holtenau...
The bulk of the art museum’s collection is from the 19th and 20th centuries and there are some influential German artists here, like the Romantic Carl Spitzweg and Impressionists like Lovis Corinth, Max Slevogt and Max Liebermann. Moving into the 1900s there are Expressionists and New Objectivity artists such as Emil Nolde, Karl Hofer and Alexander...
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Kiel is the capital of Schleswig-Holstein and a major port on the Baltic Sea. Learn about its maritime heritage, attractions, activities and guidebooks from Lonely Planet.
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Kiel. Watch cruise ships at close range, shop to your heart’s content, stroll along Kiellinie, discover Kiel’s museums or feel the wind in your sails on Kieler Förde (Kiel Fjord). This and much more besides make a stay in the state capital so special.
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