Get from Kiel airport to port

 

- The best way to book a transfer is with the manager of For Gates Ukraine.

- You can book a transfer from the cruise company

- You can get to the port by taxi. Travel time without traffic jams will take 15 minutes.

- Take the bus from the airport (501/502) and get off at the Kiel Hbf stop. You will have 10 minutes to walk to the port. The journey takes 27 minutes.

 

From Hamburg Airport to Port

- The best way to order a transfer from the manager of Fort Gates Ukraine.

- You can also book a group transfer from the cruise company with the manager of For Gates Ukraine.

 

- If you are arriving at Hamburg Airport, your best bet is to get to Central Station first. To do this, at the airport you will need to find the metro signs (green sign S1). You will need to get off at the Hamburg Hbf stop. There, take a train to Kiel (Kiel Hbf). You will have to walk 10 minutes to the port. The journey will take about 2 hours.

 

From the bus station to the port

From the central bus station you can get to the railway station in 5 minutes (just walk along the Kaistraße canal), from where the "blue line" starts, leading directly to the port terminals.

Kiel week. The world's largest sailing event kicks off in the last week of June, attracting millions of visitors and around 4,000 boats from all over Germany and abroad to the city. This week includes 2,000 competitions, including rowing competitions for many categories.

 

German submarine U-995. A wartime submarine is located on the beach in Labeu, which was converted into a technical museum; after the war, it was commissioned by the Norwegian navy and was in service until the 60s, before being in the immediate vicinity of the naval memorial in Labeu and open as a museum in 1972.

 

Naval memorial in Labeu. The Naval Memorial is a 72-meter-high tower built between 1927 and 1936. The tower has a concrete frame and brick cladding and was first erected in memory of the sailors who died during the First World War.

 

Kiel Maritime Museum. Right on the water in 1978, the city's auction house "Gothic Revival" was converted into a maritime museum. The spacious room houses an exhibition on the history of fishing and sailing in Kiel, with in-flight magazines, maps, model ships, navigational instruments and a cross-section of the WWII submarine Seehund.

 

Rathaus. The City Hall is an integral part of Kiel's skyline thanks to its 106-meter tower. When this Art Nouveau building was built in the 1900s, it was in the suburbs west of the Old Town. One look at the tower and you will know where this idea came from. as it strikingly resembles the bell tower of San Marco in Venice.

 

Church of St. Nicholas. The main church of the city is located on the Alter Markt from the 13th century. The most dramatic years were the 1870s, when it was renovated in the Gothic Revival style, and again after the war, when modern materials such as reinforced concrete were used in the renovation.

 

Zoological Museum of the University of Keele. The building for this museum was designed in the 1870s by one of the prominent architects of the time, Martin Gropius. The museum's collections are much older and were first collected in the 1600s.

 

Kunsthalle. Most of the art museum's collection dates from the 19th and 20th centuries, and there are some influential German painters like the romantic Karl Spitzweg and Impressionists like Lovis Corinth, Max Slevogt and Max Liebermann.

 

Bulk lighthouse. On a small promontory at the western entrance to the Kiel Fjord, there is a lighthouse started by the Danes when they controlled the area in 1862. Construction was interrupted by the Second Schleswig War, after which Schleswig-Holstein belonged to Prussia. Bulk is the oldest lighthouse on the fjord and gives a red signal to warn ships of the treacherous sandbank (shallow water) at the entrance.