Steenbek-Projensdorf is a district of

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...

, about five kilometres north of the city centre. The population is 5.869 (End 2018).

Infrastructure

Since the 1960s many people have moved to Steenbek-Projensdorf so that in the 1970s and the 1980s the quarter started to look more city-like. There is a shopping centre including a bank, a travel agency and restaurants. Furthermore there are dormitories, a retirement home, churches, and a gymnasium. One of the most important new buildings of ''Steenbek'' and Kiel, the ''Lubinus-Klinik'', was finished in 1984. Today it is a big medical centre.

Area

Origin

The area of Steenbek-Projensdorf used to exist within the natural borders next to the areas of ''Suchsdorf'' and ''Klausbrook''; the borders passed the edge of the ''Projensdorfer Gehölz'' (=Projensdorf Wood) on one side and both sides of the ''Bremerskamp'' up to the ''Olshausenstraße'' on the other side.

Today

Today Steenbek-Projensdorf is bounded by the ''Olof-Palme-Damm'' between ''Suchsdorf'' and Steenbek-Projensdorf, furthermore by the

Kiel Canal The Kiel Canal (german: Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, literally "North- oEast alticSea canal", formerly known as the ) is a long freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The canal was finished in 1895, but later widened, and links the N ...

up to the bridge of ''Holtenau'', by the '' B 503'' - a freeway built in 1972 due to the Olympic Games - up to the tunnel junction with the ''Steenbeker Weg'' and lastly by the ''Projensdorfer Straße'' up to the ''Westring'' including the

Holstein-Stadion Holstein-Stadion is a stadium in the port city of Kiel in Northern Germany. It is the home of football club Holstein Kiel, who currently play in Germany's 2. Bundesliga.https://int.soccerway.com/teams/germany/kieler-sv-holstein-von-1900-ev/1019 ...

History

Originally the quarters of ''Steenbek'' and ''Projensdorf'' were a part of its neighbouring village ''Wik''. Between the villages of ''Wik'' and ''Suchsdorf'' there was the estate ''Gut Projensdorf'' which attracted the first farmers at the end of 18th century. In 1867 ''Steenbek'' was incorporated into Kiel as a part of the ''Wik'' as well as some parts of ''Projensdorf''. In the course of time the areas ''Wik'' and Steenbek-Projensdorf were separated through the Kiel Canal and later the ''B 503''. When the districts were restructured in 1994, ''Steenbek'' and ''Projensdorf'' were merged into Steenbek-Projensdorf, and finally separated from the ''Wik''.

External links

History of the district of Steenbek-Projensdorf
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