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Main tourist attractions in Kiel

Discover the main sites in Kiel, a maritime city in northern Germany. This collection includes specialized museums, city parks, historic maritime locations, and cultural venues that reflect the city's heritage and its connection to the Baltic Sea.

Molfsee Open-Air Museum – State Museum of Ethnology
Molfsee Open-Air Museum – State Museum of Ethnology

Molfsee, Germany

Cultural institution exhibiting over 60 historic buildings that reconstruct rural life in Schleswig-Holstein from the 16th to the 19th centuries with demonstrations of traditional crafts.

GALERIA Kiel
GALERIA Kiel

Kiel, Germany

Five-story department store in the city center offering fashion, cosmetics, electronics, and a dining area with terrace overlooking the pedestrian Holstenstraße.

Schrevenpark
Schrevenpark

Kiel, Germany

A 15-hectare green space established in 1888 featuring formal French gardens, an artificial pond, bandstand, and walking paths lined with century-old oaks.

Kiel-Holtenau Lighthouse
Kiel-Holtenau Lighthouse

Kiel, Germany

A 31-meter navigation tower built in 1895 marking the entrance of the Kiel Canal to the Baltic Sea, serving as a reference point for commercial ships.

Kiel Maritime Museum with Fish Market and Museum Bridge
Kiel Maritime Museum with Fish Market and Museum Bridge

Kiel, Germany

Maritime complex including collections of naval objects, a traditional fresh fish market, and port facilities with an observation walkway over the Kiel Canal.

Hörn
Hörn

Kiel, Germany

Renovated port district featuring restaurant terraces, waterfront cafés, a marina, and promenades along the quays with a view of the fjord.

Marina
Marina

Kiel, Germany

Port facility hosting racing sailboats, private yachts, and pleasure boats with mooring pontoons, nautical services, and a coastal promenade.

Hiroshima Park
Hiroshima Park

Kiel, Germany

Municipal commemorative park including landscaped gardens, ornamental ponds, pedestrian paths, rest areas, and plantings of trees and shrubs dedicated to world peace.

Kiel Botanical Gardens
Kiel Botanical Gardens

Kiel, Germany

University green spaces with heated greenhouses, specialized plant collections, and educational trails for students and visitors interested in European and tropical botany.

GEOMAR Aquarium
GEOMAR Aquarium

Kiel, Germany

Scientific aquatic center focused on marine research, exhibiting live fish, crustaceans, and other organisms from the Baltic Sea in reconstructed tanks.

Kiel City Hall
Kiel City Hall

Kiel, Germany

Municipal building constructed between 1907 and 1911, featuring a tower reaching 106 meters with a public observation platform.

St. Nicholas Church
St. Nicholas Church

Kiel, Germany

Protestant church dating from the 13th century, rebuilt after the war, recognizable by its spire rising above the urban and harbor landscape.

Kiellinie
Kiellinie

Kiel, Germany

Waterfront promenade stretching for several kilometers along the shores of the fjord, allowing visitors to watch maritime traffic and adjacent green spaces.

Citti-Park
Citti-Park

Kiel, Germany

Modern shopping center grouping more than a hundred specialty stores, dining areas, cinema, and various services across multiple levels in a covered complex.

Bülk Lighthouse
Bülk Lighthouse

Kiel, Germany

Maritime signal tower built in 1865 guiding ships to the entrance of the fjord from the Baltic Sea, 36 meters high and open to visitors.

Falckenstein Beach
Falckenstein Beach

Kiel, Germany

Swimming area on the eastern coast of the fjord with sandy beach, sanitary facilities, children's play areas, and shaded lounging spaces.

Flandern Bunker
Flandern Bunker

Kiel, Germany

Former wartime underground shelter built during the world conflict now converted into a memorial site with documentary exhibitions about this difficult period of European history.

Kiel Canal
Kiel Canal

Kiel, Germany

Major artificial waterway 98 kilometers long, enabling ships to cross the Jutland Peninsula and avoid going around Denmark to reach both seas.

Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Kunsthalle zu Kiel

Kiel, Germany

Cultural institution devoted to fine arts, regularly organizing temporary exhibits of modern and traditional works by locally and internationally recognized artists.

Computer Museum
Computer Museum

Kiel, Germany

Museum focusing on the development of computer science, displaying old machines, historic computers, and electronic devices demonstrating technological advances achieved over several decades in this field.

Holsten Street
Holsten Street

Kiel, Germany

Main shopping street in Kiel converted into a pedestrian area, lined with traditional shops, local restaurants, and buildings from various periods of German architecture.

Schilksee Beach
Schilksee Beach

Kiel, Germany

Aquatic recreation area on the Baltic Sea shore, equipped with changing rooms, playgrounds, and rental services for sailing and other marine activities.

Warleberger Hof City Museum
Warleberger Hof City Museum

Kiel, Germany

Cultural institution housed in a historic building presenting permanent exhibitions on urban development, maritime traditions, and regional craftsmanship of Schleswig-Holstein.

Monument to Tsar Peter III
Monument to Tsar Peter III

Kiel, Germany

Commemorative sculpture erected in honor of Russian ruler Peter III, recalling the dynastic ties between Russia and the Duchy of Holstein in the 18th century.