Kieler Förde

Kieler Förde is an inlet of the Baltic Sea, approximately 17 km (11 mi) long, on the eastern side of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Formed by glacial movement during the last ice age, it divides Danish Wold peninsula from Wagria.

Like the other inlets of förde-type, geologically it is not a fjord.

At its narrowest point, the "Friedrichsorter Enge", the fjord is only one kilometre wide.

The river Schwentine enters Kieler Förde near Kiel-Dietrichsdorf.

Kiel Fjord = Kiel harbor = Kieler Hafen; viewed from South towards the Baltic Sea in the northern background (2009)
Historical map of the vicinity of Kiel, ca. 1888.
Kiel Fjord between Laboe and Mole Stickenhörn (nautical chart)
Aerial photograph, view from the Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft shipyard (front) towards Baltic Sea and the Laboe Naval Memorial (top right) in the north (2003)