Steenbek-Projensdorf is a district of
Kiel
Kiel ( ; ) is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein. With a population of around 250,000, it is Germany's largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is located on the Kieler Förde inlet of the Ba ...
, 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 (, until 1948 called in German the ) is a fresh water canal that links the North Sea () to the Baltic Sea (). It runs through the Germany, German states of Germany, state of Schleswig-Holstein, from Brunsbüttel to the Holtenau di ...
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.
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
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Law
* Estate (law), a term in common law for a person's property, entitlements and obligations
* Estates of the realm, a broad social category in the histories of certain countries.
** The Estates, representativ ...
''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(German)
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