Schleusenpark Kiel, Public park near Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, Kiel, Germany

Schleusenpark Kiel is a public park near the Kiel Canal with wide paths, open lawns, and an observation platform called Wiker Balkon. The space covers about 1.5 hectares along the southern bank of the waterway.

Plans for the park grew out of an urban design competition held in 1999; Kiel's city council adopted the Marinequartier Kiel-Wik framework plan in 2001, and the engineering group Possel und Partner handled the design. Before construction, the roughly 3-hectare site of the former gas power plant of the Stadtwerke Kiel was cleared of buildings, foundations, pipes and contaminated soil for 1.5 million euros. The park itself, about 160 metres long and 75 metres wide, was completed in 2012 at a cost of around 900,000 euros.

The park's name refers to the Holtenauer lock beside it, and a new path links the green to the Maschinenmuseum Kiel-Wik. The northern part holds the Wiker Balkon, a 2.30-metre viewing platform that the NDR satire show Extra 3 presented humorously as a structure failing its purpose, since trees and houses block the intended views.

The park lies in the Wik district between Uferstraße and Herthastraße, just south of the Holtenauer Schleuse, and covers 1.5 hectares over roughly 160 by 75 metres. A newly laid path leads from the park to the Straße Am Kiel-Kanal and on to the Maschinenmuseum Kiel-Wik. The Wiker Balkon platform in the northern section reaches 2.30 metres in height at NN+17.00 m, but trees and houses between it and the canal block the views the planners intended.

The Wiker Balkon, a 2.30-metre-high viewing platform in the northern part of the park, was planned to offer views of the Kiel Canal, the lock complex and the Kiel Fjord from a height of NN+17.00 m. Trees and houses between the platform and the canal block those intended views, and the NDR satire programme Extra 3 presented the platform as an example of a structure that fails its purpose.