Kieler Förde

The Kiel Fjord (Danish: Kiel Fjord and Kiel fjord ) is a 17 km long, narrow fjord on the Baltic Sea, which is caused by glacier movements in the last ice age. It lies between the Danish Wahld landscapes in the west and Wagrien the east and extends from its southern end, the horn next to the city center of Kiel, to the outer fjord, which merges into the Bay of Kiel. At the " Friedrichsort Tight " is the fjord which forms a natural deep water harbor, 1 km wide and was formerly protected by the fortress Friedrichsort.

In Kiel- Neumühlen on the east bank of the river Schwentine empties into the fjord. In Holtenau on the west bank are the sluices of the Kiel Canal (NOK; international designation Kiel Canal until 1948 in Germany Kaiser- Wilhelm-Kanal ). The busiest artificial waterway in the world connects the North Sea ( Elbe estuary ) to the Baltic Sea and saves international shipping to up to about 800 km longer route around the Jutland Peninsula by the Skagerrak and Kattegat. In the year 2012 34.879 ships passed ( 33 522 in 2011) and channel promotion.

List of feeding places

(clockwise, starting in the north ):

  • Eastern shore Heidkate (municipality wiping (Holstein) )
  • Wendtorf ( resort, marina )
  • Stone
  • Ostseebad Laboe ( vacation, naval memorial, U- boat 995, fishing and commercial port, the harbor museum and 2 marinas )
  • Möltenort (municipality Heike village - fishing port and marina )
  • Heike village (U - boat Memorial )
  • Kitzeberg (municipality Heike village)
  • Mönkeberg (Marina )
  • Neumühlen - Dietrichsdorf ( City of Kiel - Trading Port: Ostuferhafen )
  • Welling Village ( city of Kiel - Southern Schwentine mouth )
  • Ellerbek ( City of Kiel - former fishing village, now Arsenal)
  • Gaarden -east ( city of Kiel - HDW - German shipyard AG)
  • Kiel Center ( piers of the great Scandinavian ferries)
  • Düsternbrook ( Kiel )
  • Wik ( Kiel )
  • Holtenau ( City of Kiel - Nord -Ostsee-Kanal )
  • Friedrichsort ( City of Kiel - traditional industrial location )
  • Falckenstein ( keel kurtaxfreier beach in Friedrichsort )
  • Schilksee ( City of Kiel - with the Olympic Schilksee )
  • Bülk (municipality Beaches - Bülk lighthouse)

On the Kiel Fjord always brisk ship traffic that is caused mainly by the commercial vessels passing down the Kiel Canal, car and passenger ferries to and from Scandinavia, harbor ferries and sail boats that find a high density of moorings in the said promotion places. Under the promotion of the 1368 -meter-long district heating tunnel keel runs.

Terms port and maritime habitat of funding

The Kiel Fjord is strongly shaped by embankments, docks and boat traffic from people. However, use at least 30 different species of fish the promotion as a habitat. Permanent residents are promoting, for example, the bizarre sculpin and various gobies. The cod ( cod ) is the promotion primarily as a nursery. Lured by the river water Schwentine, come on their spawning migrations salmon, sea trout and herring in the fjord. Due to the freshwater inflows, the fauna also includes salt-tolerant freshwater species such as perch and pike.

Impressions

Kiel Fjord, view from the water tower Ravens mountain

Fjord steamer " Falckenstein ", in the background the shipyard HDW

Pilots use on the Kiel Fjord

Sailing on the Kiel Fjord

View from the bridge of the Schleusenstrasse direction Kiel Fjord in Holtenau

Former Olympic harbor and to the Navy Memorial

Kiel fjord at Kiel- Schilksee

View of the outer Firth of Schilksee to Laboe on the east bank. Baltic Sea: li. The north; Port of Kiel: re. the south

Lighthouse Friedrichsort at Falkensteiner shore before the district Friedrichsort

Night at 22.35 clock summer solstice on the northern horizon of the Kiel Fjord; right the Laboe naval memorial.

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