Kieler Nachrichten

{{Infobox newspaper | logo = Logo Kieler Nachrichten 2015.png | publisher = Kieler Zeitung Verlags und Druckerei KG-GmbH & Co | headquarters = Kiel | publishing_country = Germany | oclc = 44260537 | website = {{Official URL}} }}

The '''''Kieler Nachrichten''''' (literally "Kiel's News") or '''''KN''''' is the only [[German language|German-language]] [[newspaper]] published in [[Kiel]], [[Germany]]. It is published by "Kieler Zeitung Verlags und Druckerei KG-GmbH & Co.", a subdivision of [[Axel Springer AG]] which owns 24.5 percent of the company. The newspaper's office is located at Asmus-Bremer-Platz between Holstenstraße and the Kiel city hall.[[File:1935_Kieler_Neueste_Nachrichten.jpg|thumb|1935 illustration by [[Helmuth Ellgaard]] in the ''Kieler Neueste Nachrichten'', to which the post-WWII paper is a successor.]]

The ''KN'' was first published on 3 April 1946, with the permission of the [[United Kingdom|British]] in [[Allied Occupation Zones in Germany|occupied Germany]] after [[World War II]]. The newspaper later considered itself a successor to the ''[[Kieler Zeitung]]'' (founded 1864) and the ''[[Kieler Neueste Nachrichten]]'' (founded 1894).

In [[Rötger Feldmann]]'s comic ''[[Werner (comics)|Werner]]'', the ''KN'' is known as the ''Kieler Nachtwächter'' ("Kiel's Night Watchman").

== External links == * {{Commons category-inline}} * {{Official website|http://www.kn-online.de/}} {{in lang|de}}

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