Kiel-Pries is one of Kiel's boroughs that has got a worth mentioning amount of Altbau buildings (area around Poststraße, Christianspries and the area around Untere Straße, Obere Straße, Weststraße) located right at the Kieler Förde (firth/narrow coastal inlet). Stepping out of your front door it does not take you longer than 5-10 minutes til you can appreciate the wideness of the Kieler Förde with its beautiful beaches visited by locals, primarly students of Kiel University (http://www.uni-kiel.de/). Every day at about 2.20 p.m. you can watch the cruises Colour Fantasy or Colour Magic leaving Kiel and heading for Oslo in Norway. Also, the busiest canal worldwide is only a stone's throw away: the Nordostseekanal (http://www.kielkanal.de/) which connects the Baltic Sea in the East of North Germany with the North Sea in the West of North Germany.
And still: In this quite central and rather industrial borough it is very cheap to live! I guess in 10 years time prices for rent will have increased alot.
The Bethlehem Chapel in Kiel-Pries looks, in my eyes, like a chapel in Eastern Europe. Anyway, it is built from wood and looks very beautiful!
You should know that I love all kinds of urban industry so no surprise that I really like this photo. It shows the Lindenau wharf in Kiel-Pries in winter time (2010) only a couple of hundred metres of the above mentioned parts of Kiel-Pries. Imagine having your own sailboat there, going for a walk with your dog and having a swim in the afternoon after work...
These buildings in Kiel-Holtenau, a neighbouring borough of Kiel-Pries, are facing the Nordostseekanal which is behind me when having taken the photo: beautifully modernised and not too expensive. Hafen-Apotheke means 'pharmacie at the port'.
This street in Kiel-Holtenau is called Tiessenkai, the brickstone houses untouched by the youngest urban change. Once very cheap to build and now they are situated in one of the best places of Kiel overlooking the Kieler Förde and the Nordostseekanal at the same time! In the background you can see the Kieler Förde, on the right you can see the Nordostseekanal. I think the 3rd or 4th little brickstone house on the left is a very special, unique and cosy cafe with big windows to watch the passing containervessels and cruises-one of my favourite places in Kiel!
These two pictures prove the process of gentrification in Kiel-Holtenau: an old storage building made into a luxurious apartment building and, in the second picture, one of 8 new buildings in Holtenauer Reede. This area used to be very industrial in former times.
