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Kleiner Kiel 2008 - western part (in the background the town hall tower, in front of it the opera house)

The Kleine Kiel is a shallow inland body of water in the state capital of Kiel , which is divided into two parts by a bridge. Due to its connection to the Kiel Fjord , the Kleiner Kiel is brackish water .

history

Little Kiel 1910
Little Kiel 2008 - northern part
View of the town hall and opera house on the Kleiner Kiel.
Small keel 1796

Until 1846, the Kleine Kiel and today's Kiel boat harbor formed a continuous branch of the Kiel Fjord. The then city of Kiel, today's old town, stood on a peninsula. In the north there was a swampy lowland between the Kiel Fjord and the Kleiner Kiel, to which a castle, today's Kiel Castle , secured access. Thus the old town of Kiel was almost completely surrounded by the water of the fjord.

In 1846 the connection between the Kiel boat harbor and the Kiel Fjord was narrowed and a bridge was added.

In 1889 the Kleine Kiel was divided by a wooden bridge about 160 meters long. In 1909, after backfilling on both banks, this was replaced by a larger reinforced concrete bridge only about 20 meters long. In 2001 a new bridge was built at the same place, which is called Emil-Lueken -brücke.

In 1904, the Holsten Bridge at the interface between Kleinem Kiel and Kiel's boat harbor was torn down and the water connection was filled in except for a 230 meter long connecting pipe.

In 1982 the connection between Kieler Bootshafen and Kieler Förde was also filled in over a wide area except for a 150 meter long connecting pipe.

Naming

The term Kiel comes from the Low German word for “wedge” and here most likely means the fjord . Until 1864 there were two wedges: The Kiel Fjord as a water wedge into the Schleswig-Holstein mainland, a "Great Kiel", and within this the water wedge southwest of Kiel's old town, a "Small Kiel". In the course of the refills, the meaning has faded, but the name has been preserved. The Kleine Kiel, which is now separated by the Emil Lueken Bridge, which is only 20 meters long, makes you forget that until 1889 the banks were only 116 meters apart that could only be crossed by ship.

Surroundings

At the western end of the lake are the Hiroshimapark and the Kiel Opera House , at the eastern end in the Ratsdienergarten the monument to Klaus Groth . On the north bank ( Lorentzendamm ) are u. a. the Ministry of Justice of the State of Schleswig-Holstein (previously Kiel Higher Regional Court ), the headquarters of the Förde Sparkasse (previously Kieler Spar- und Leihkasse) and the motherhouse of the Sankt Heinrich Sisters in the DRK .

Web links

Commons : Kleiner Kiel  - Collection of images

Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 32 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 13 ″  E