Kiel is a city in Calumet and Manitowoc counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

[9] In 1852 Charley Lindemann immigrated to the area and began a settlement among the Native American Menominee and Potawatomi tribes.

[10] His wife named the community after her home town of Kiel, Germany.

[10] Two years later, Col. Henry F. Belitz, later nicknamed the "Father of Kiel", built a hotel and mill along the north side of the Sheboygan River.

[10] A road was built across Wisconsin to connect Green Bay with Milwaukee area communities.

[10] In the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, Kiel became a manufacturing area with businesses specializing in brick, wood shoes, machine, and furniture manufacturing.

[10] A book called Yellowbird written by Kielite Henry Goeres in the late 1800s recounts - in a blend of fact and fiction - the early history of the settlement in the 1850s when European settlers interacted with Native Americans in the area.

[12] The city continues to retain a diverse manufacturing and commercial base.

[13] In 2022, a Title IX investigation was opened into three students at Kiel Middle School for sexual harassment.

[16] As of June 3, the investigations had been closed by the district, and attorneys were looking to clear the students' records.

At present, the Kiel Picnic runs for four days from a Thursday through a Sunday.

Each year in February, Kiel holds its Ice Sculpting Contest on Fremont Street.

Wisconsin Highway 67 runs north/south at the extreme east edge of Kiel.

The river is rarely used as a means of transportation, though it is used for recreational purposes, including canoeing and fishing in warm weather and, in the winter, ice skating and snowmobiling.