Old Town (Kiel)

Old town City of Kiel Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 23 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 21 ″  E
Area :	34.7 ha
Residents :	654  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density :	1,885 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	24103
Area code :	0431
Location of the old town in Kiel

Altstadt is a district of Kiel . With 34.7 hectares (as of December 31, 2010), the old town is the smallest district in Kiel in terms of area. Compared to the pre-war period, the old town of Kiel has only a few inhabitants, at the end of 2014 there were 654. Contrary to popular belief, the historical building fabric was not only destroyed during the war, but was partly torn down from the city around 1900 when Kiel had suddenly grown. A new building area has been created at the Alte Feuerwache with condominiums, townhouses and student apartments as well as a shared underground car park.

history

Kiel was founded between 1233 and 1242 by Count Adolf IV von Holstein on a former peninsula measuring around 18 hectares (today's old town). There was a connection to the mainland only in the northeast. Otherwise, the fjord and the inlet “ Kleiner Kiel ” made for an area that was easy to defend. The Old Market and the following streets were laid out when the city was founded : Dänische Strasse , Flämische Strasse , Haßstrasse , Holstenstrasse (until the 15th century was called Brückenstrasse ), Kehdenstrasse , Küterstrasse , Pfaffenstrasse , Schloßstrasse (formerly Burgstrasse ) and Schuhmacherstrasse . In addition, the Nikolaikirche was built in the southeast of the market square and a castle was built to protect the only land connection in the northeast of the peninsula. In the 15th century this castle was expanded into a palace . At the narrowest point of the Kleiner Kiel, the 50 m long Holsten Bridge created a connection to the “ Via Regia ” long-distance road. The Holsten Bridge has meanwhile been torn open in favor of the Holsten Fleet.

Known places

St. Nicholas Church

• Nikolaikirche (Evangelical Lutheran)
• Kiel Castle
• Boat harbor
• Holstenstrasse
• The Kiel Maritime Museum at Sartorikai

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Kiel Old Town

Web links

Commons : Old Town  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Support group Kieler Altstadt eV
• Kiel's old town in the Stadtwiki Kiel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The social and structural data from the Kiel districts 2010 (PDF; 1.4 MB)
2. ↑ The population in the Kiel districts in 2014 . (PDF) State capital Kiel
3. ^ Christian W. Zöllner: Around the old town of Kiel: A city is changing . BoD - Books on Demand, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7494-8140-8 ( google.de [accessed January 8, 2020]).
4. ↑ BLK2 | Old fire station residential area. Retrieved May 21, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Vera Stoy: Kiel on the way to the big city. Kiel 2003.
6. ↑ Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Holsten Bridge . In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).
7. ↑ City map of the city of Kiel published by the city of Kiel with detailed district boundaries.
8. ↑ Small Kiel Canal. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .