Rathaus

A beautiful swimming centre with an indoor pool with Caribbean flair and an outdoor pool with a water temperature of at least 25 °C, an 80-m giant slide and a spacious sauna area consisting of 3 log cabins and an outdoor pool on the Eider.

Four escalators (each 55 m long) and a 130 m long tunnel tube, enabling people to cross underneath the Kiel Canal. In 1965, the year of its construction, its escalators were the longest in Western Europe.

Built in the 1990s, this is one of only two "ship welcoming facilities" in Germany (the other is the "Willkomm-Höft" on the Elbe river in Wedel). It plays the anthem and raises the flag of the country of the ships that pass.

The longest railway bridge in Europe, it is made of steel, 2,500 metres in length and 41 metres in height. It is one of only 13 transporter bridges in the world: it has a gondola to carry passengers and cars across the river.

A perhaps bizarre consequence of the construction/expansion of the Canal is this railway loop in the middle of famously flat as a pancake Schleswig Holstein. The Kaiser wanted his newest warships to pass through the canal and as such bridges had to achieve a height of 50 meters or more. But as the existing station was not supposed to be moved, some method had to be devised for trains to gain fifty meters of altitude over a relatively short stretch of distance. This loop is, to the delight of railway enthusiasts, the consequence.

A 575.75 m long wooden bench along Kiel Canal.