# Kiel Fjord > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kiel_Fjord > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kiel_Fjord.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel_Fjord > Source revision: 1346427846 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Fjord in Germany This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Kiel Fjord" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (October 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions. 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You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Kieler Förde}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. (Learn how and when to remove this message) View of the fjord from over Kiel (2009) Map of Kiel and environs, c. 1890 View of the fjord from over the [Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft](/source/Howaldtswerke-Deutsche_Werft) shipyard (2003) The **Kieler Förde**, also known in English as the **Kiel Fjord**, is an inlet of the [Baltic Sea](/source/Baltic_Sea) on the eastern side of [Schleswig-Holstein](/source/Schleswig-Holstein), Germany. Beginning at the [Bay of Kiel](/source/Bay_of_Kiel), it extends inland for about 17 kilometres (11 mi), dividing the [Dänischer Wohld](/source/D%C3%A4nischer_Wohld) from [Wagrien](/source/Wagrien). It terminates at the [Hörn](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H%C3%B6rn_(Kiel)&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6rn_(Kiel))], a sheet of water in the centre of [Kiel](/source/Kiel). The [Kiel Canal](/source/Kiel_Canal), which allows ships to pass between the North and Baltic seas without rounding [Jutland](/source/Jutland), has its eastern terminus on the Kiel Fjord. At its narrowest point, the Friedrichsorter Enge, the fjord is only one kilometre wide. The river [Schwentine](/source/Schwentine) enters the ford near Kiel-Dietrichsdorf. ## Locations Locations on the Kiel Fjord: ### Western shore From north to south: - Bülk ([Bülk Lighthouse](/source/B%C3%BClk_Lighthouse)) - [Strande](/source/Strande) (fishery and sporting harbor) - Kiel-[Schilksee](/source/Schilksee) (Olympic harbor) - [Falckenstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Falckenstein,_Schleswig-Holstein&action=edit&redlink=1) (Kiel's duty-free beach) - Kiel-[Friedrichsort](/source/Friedrichsort) (traditionsreicher Industriestandort) - Kiel-[Holtenau](/source/Holtenau) ([Kiel Canal](/source/Kiel_Canal)) - Kiel-Wik - Kiel-[Düsternbrook](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=D%C3%BCsternbrook&action=edit&redlink=1) - Kiel-Zentrum (offices of the large Scandinavian cruise ships) ### Eastern shore From north to south: - Heidkate - [Wendtorf](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wendtorf_(Probstei)&action=edit&redlink=1) in Probstei (vacation site, large natural yacht harbor (Marina Wendtorf), fishing village) - [Stein](/source/Stein_(Probstei)) in [Probstei](/source/Probstei) - [Laboe](/source/Laboe) (vacation site, [Laboe Naval Memorial](/source/Laboe_Naval_Memorial), [U-Boat](/source/Unterseeboot_995), fishery, and two sport harbours) - Möltenort (fishery and sport harbour) - [Heikendorf](/source/Heikendorf) - Kitzeberg - [Mönkeberg](/source/M%C3%B6nkeberg) - Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf (trade harbour "Ostuferhafen") - Kiel-Wellingdorf (southern mouth of the [Schwentine](/source/Schwentine)) - Kiel-Ellerbek (former fishing village, now Arsenal) - Kiel-Gaarden ([Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft](/source/Howaldtswerke-Deutsche_Werft)) ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Kieler Förde](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kiel_Fjord). - [Webcam Kiel](http://webcam-kiel.de/) Data - Kieler Förde [54°22′4″N 10°10′23″E / 54.36778°N 10.17306°E / 54.36778; 10.17306](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Kiel_Fjord¶ms=54_22_4_N_10_10_23_E_source:frwiki_region:DE_scale:2000000_type:adm2nd) Authority control databases International VIAF GND National United States Israel Other Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kiel Fjord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel_Fjord) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel_Fjord?action=history)). 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