31 Sights in Kiel, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Kiel, Germany! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Kiel. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
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The Germaniahafen in the Kai-City Kiel in the Schleswig-Holstein state capital Kiel is a harbour basin for guest sailors and traditional ships in Gaarden-Ost, which was completed in 1998. The Germaniahafen is 28 metres wide and 130 metres long. It is located directly opposite the main train station, can be reached directly from there via the Hörnbrücke and is practically a side arm of the Hörn. During the construction of the port, special attention was paid to ecological sustainability. In the immediate vicinity, the high-rise center at Germaniahafen was completed in 2007. It houses restaurants, music pubs, offices and apartments. At its southern end is the sculpture Adam and Eve by artist Bjørn Nørgaard.
The Botanischer Garten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, or less formally the Botanischer Garten Kiel, is a botanical garden and arboretum maintained by the University of Kiel. It is located at Am Botanischen Garten 1, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and open daily.
Wikipedia: Botanischer Garten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (EN)
3. Esther Glanz geb. Buchen
The list of stumbling stones in Kiel gives an overview of the stumbling stones laid by the artist Gunter Demnig in the city of Kiel. The artist's actions are supported by the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation and the City of Kiel. The first 15 stumbling stones were laid on 15 June 2006. Since then, a total of 268 stumbling stones have been laid in Kiel in annual campaigns. Since 2008, the campaigns have been accompanied by various schools in Kiel. With the support of teachers, pupils research the lives of the victims as part of sponsorships.
4. Mediendom
The Media Dome of Kiel University of Applied Sciences is a new type of dome theatre with 360° multimedia equipment. It is located on the campus of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences in Kiel-Dietrichsdorf on the east bank of the Kiel Fjord and is part of the Kulturinsel Dietrichsdorf. Organizationally, the Mediendom belongs to the central institution Center for Cultural and Science Communication (ZKW) of Kiel University of Applied Sciences.
5. Rathausturm
The Kiel Town Hall is the town hall of the Schleswig-Holstein state capital Kiel. It was built at the beginning of the 20th century and is a listed building. The 106 m high town hall tower is one of its landmarks.
6. Kieler Kloster
The Kiel Monastery is a historic building in the city center of Kiel. It stands on the site of a Franciscan monastery founded in 1242, which perished in the Reformation. After war destruction in the Second World War, it was rebuilt in a modified form as the Theological Study House Kiel Monastery.
7. Alte Metallgießerei
The Howaldtsche Metal Foundry Industrial Museum is located at Grenzstraße 1 on the north bank of the Schwentine in Kiel. The museum was opened in May 2007 and has been part of the Kiel City and Maritime Museum since 2020. The historic building from 1884 has been a listed building since 1992.
Wikipedia: Industriemuseum Howaldtsche Metallgießerei (DE), Website
8. Petruskirche
The Petrus Church in the Kiel district of Wik was built by order of Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz in the years 1905–1907 as a garrison church. He acted on the recommendation of Admiral Prince Heinrich of Prussia, the brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and entrusted this construction project to the architects Curjel & Moser.
9. Evangeliums-Christen (Baptisten)
The Evangelical Christians or Evangelical Christians are an evangelical free church that emerged from Russian Stundism at the beginning of the 20th century. In Soviet times, Evangelical Christians, Baptists and later also Pentecostal churches and Mennonites united under state pressure to form the Evangelical Christians-Baptists.
10. Sankt Nikolaus
The Provost's Church of St. Nicholas in Kiel is the oldest Roman Catholic church in the city. The parish now belongs to the Archdiocese of Hamburg, founded in 1995, before that it was part of the Diocese of Osnabrück.
11. Kiel Holtenau
The Holtenau lighthouse is located on the north bank of the entrance to the Kiel Canal in Kiel-Holtenau and has served as an entrance light since 1895. The tower is a seamark and memorial and is one of the most beautiful lighthouses in Germany.
12. Lutherkirche
Today's Luther Church is the successor building to the community centre of the Protestant Luther congregation at Schrevenpark in Kiel, which was destroyed in an air raid on 4 April 1945. She belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran congregation within the Nordkirche.
13. Vicelinkirche
The Vicelin Church in Kiel is a Bartning emergency church of the Friedensgemeinde Kiel in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in northern Germany. It is located at Paul-Fleming-Straße 2 in the west of the city near the city monastery and is named after the German missionary Vizelin.
14. Warleberger Hof
The Warleberger Hof is located at Dänische Straße 19 in the Schleswig-Holstein capital Kiel. The listed brick building is the last surviving aristocratic palace in the city and the only surviving private building from before 1864 in Kiel's old town. This house has housed the Kiel City Museum since 1970.
15. Hindenburg
The Hindenburg with the DGzRS registration KRA 101 is a former motor lifeboat of the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS). The launch of the boat in steel construction took place in 1944 at the August Pahl shipyard on the Köhlfleet in Hamburg; the 17.5-metre-long ship was commissioned in the same year.
16. Sankt Nikolai zu Kiel
St. Nikolai is the name of a Protestant parish and its church in Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the town's oldest building, at the Alter Markt. It was dedicated to Saint Nicholas. In the 19th century, it was remodeled in Gothic Revival style. Destroyed in World War II, it was rebuilt with a simpler contemporary interior. It features notable artworks such as a bronze baptismal font from 1340, an altar from 1460, a triumphal cross from 1490, a wood-carved pulpit from 1705, and outside a bronze by Ernst Barlach from 1928.
17. Leuchtturm Friedrichsort
The Friedrichsort lighthouse is a 31.7-metre-high round reinforced concrete lighthouse with a diameter in the central area of 3.5 metres in the colours green and white. It stands on a small island directly on the beach, on the northwestern side in the Kiel Fjord off Friedrichsort, north of the Kiel Canal at the point where the fjord has its narrowest point. It serves as a guide, cross-mark and orientation light for the entrance to the port of Kiel as well as to the locks of the Kiel Canal and marks the shoals Klever Berg and Au-Haken.
18. Zoologisches Museum
The Zoological Museum of Kiel University is a zoological museum in Kiel, Germany. It was founded by naturalist Karl Möbius, and architect Martin Gropius designed the building. The exhibitions display systematics, evolution, tropical and German fauna, butterfly ecology and history of zoology in Kiel. The museum is part of the University of Kiel and participates in the Museen am Meer association.
Wikipedia: Zoological Museum of Kiel University (EN), Website
19. Ansgarkirche
The Evangelical Lutheran Ansgar Church is a church building in Kiel in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Until 31 October 1996, it was home to three independent municipalities of Ansgar-Ost, Ansgar-West and Ansgar-Süd, which merged into one joint Ansgar municipality on 1 November 1996. On 1 January 2008, this merged with the Heiligengeistgemeinde to form the new Heiligengeist parish, to which St. Paul's Church also belongs. The congregation belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Nordkirche).
20. Pauluskirche
The Pauluskirche in the Kiel district of Düsternbrook was built in the years 1878–1882 in the neo-Gothic style as a garrison church for the Prussian naval base of Kiel and was used by it until 1918. Since 1925, St. Paul's Church has belonged as a parish church to the Kiel Evangelical Lutheran parish of Heiligengeist.
21. Niederdeutsche Bühne
The Niederdeutsche Bühne Kiel e. V. (NBK) is a theatre in Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1921 by Otto Mensing and is a member of the Lower German Stage Association. Each season, six or seven plays are performed in Low German and a Christmas fairy tale in High German. The programme includes classic dramas and comedies as well as boulevard comedies, contemporary plays, musicals and readings. The NBK youth club regularly stages its own play in Low German. The venue is the Theater am Wilhelmplatz.
22. Medizinhistorisches Museum
The Medical and Pharmacy History Collection of Kiel University is part of the Faculty of Medicine. It emerged from the former Institute for the History of Medicine and Pharmacy at the university. Since then, it has been led by Eva Fuhry.
Wikipedia: Medizin- und Pharmaziehistorische Sammlung der Universität Kiel (DE), Website
23. Alter Botanischer Garten
The Old Botanical Garden in Kiel, also known as the Old Botanical Garden on the Fjord, is a former botanical garden and arboretum located at Düsternbrooker Weg 19, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is open daily without charge.
24. Festung Friedrichsort
Christianspris or Frederiksort was a Danish fortification somewhat north of the then Danish city of Kiel. In 1632 the Danish king Christian IV initiated the works of making a fortification on a land tongue on the West shore of the Kielerfiord on the Jernved peninsula. The purpose was to secure this land against German troops during the 30-years War. However, the town was short lived. Christian IV founded many towns and cities. It is thought this town only survived around 10 years.
25. Ostflügel
Kiel Castle in Kiel in the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein was one of the secondary residences of the Gottorf dukes. The castle exhibited a very varied architectural history and in the more recent architectural period became one of the most important secular buildings in Schleswig-Holstein. The castle burned down during the Second World War and its ruins were largely carried away and replaced by a new building.
26. Anscharpark
The Anscharpark is a green space in the Wik district of the Schleswig-Holstein state capital Kiel. The park with the buildings of the former naval and garrison hospital between Adalbertstraße and Weimarer Straße is approx. 62,000 m² in size. A large part of the site was redesigned in 2017/2018, after most of the listed pavilions had been demolished, and developed with apartments. Previously, other buildings were newly erected or renovated in accordance with monument regulations, such as the so-called gatehouse.
27. Schifffahrtsmuseum
Kiel Maritime Museum is a museum in the German city of Kiel. It was established in 1978 in what had been the fish-auction hall in the Sartorikai area of the city. It shows the maritime history of Kiel.
28. Maschinenmuseum Kiel-Wik
The Kiel-Wik Machine Museum is located at Am Kiel-Kanal 44 near the Kiel Canal in the Wik district. It is an industrial museum opened in 1985 and is operated by the Kiel-Wik Machine Museum Foundation. His motto is "Experience historical technology in operation".
29. Revolution und Krieg
The highly political mural Revolution and War was completed in November 1989 by the artist Shahin Charmi on the façade of a former war bunker, Iltisbunker in Kiel-Gaarden. The artist chose the theme of the work in reference to the 70th anniversary of the sailors' and workers' uprising, the November Revolution of 1918 and the murder of Rosa Luxemburg. With more than 600 m², the mural "Revolution and War" is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
30. Hirschfeld-Blick
The Hirschfeld-Blick is a green space named after Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld in the Düsternbrook district of the Schleswig-Holstein state capital of Kiel. The small park with a path down to the Kiel Fjord is about 2000 m² in size and is located between Bismarckallee and Kiellinie.
31. Kunsthalle
The Kunsthalle zu Kiel is an art museum in Kiel and, with 2,000 m² of exhibition space, the largest museum in the state capital. The Kunsthalle is located north of the city centre on Düsternbrooker Weg – close to the Schlossgarten and the Kiel Fjord. Since 25 September 2023, the Kunsthalle zu Kiel and the Collection of Classical Antiquities have been closed for renovation. A total of around 49.5 million euros will flow into the renovation of the historic building. Of this, around 30 million euros come from the IMPULS infrastructure modernization program of the state of Schleswig-Holstein and almost 19.5 million euros from the federal government's KulturInvest program.
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