Kieler Nachrichten

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1935 illustration by Helmuth Ellgaard in the Kieler Neueste Nachrichten, to which the post-WWII paper is a successor.

The Kieler Nachrichten (literally "Kiel News") or KN is the only 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.

The KN was first published on 3 April 1946, with the permission of the British in occupied Germany after World War II. The newspaper later considered itself a successor to the (founded 1864) and the (founded 1894).

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

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Coordinates: 54°19′17″N 10°08′03″E / 54.32139°N 10.13417°E / 54.32139; 10.13417


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