Kiel increases resident parking fees: up to 90 euros soon possible!

Kiel increases resident parking fees: up to 90 euros soon possible!

Neumünster, Deutschland - Parking in Kiel remains exciting, and on June 30, 2025 there are some changes. The state government has decided new regulations that enable the municipalities to significantly increase the fees for resident parking spaces. So far, residents in Schleswig-Holstein have been paying an annual amount of 30.70 euros for their parking permit. With the new provisions, these fees can now rise to up to 90 euros per year. This is reported by the Kieler Nachrichten .

The changes aim to optimize the use of the public parking space. In other federal states, such as Bonn or Tübingen, residents already have to pay more than 200 euros-a price from which the regulation in Schleswig-Holstein is far away. In cities such as Neumünster, Lübeck and Kiel, there are already efforts to raise the parking fees to ensure a more efficient distribution of the parking space.

New mobility concept in Kiel

Kiel's mobility director Alke Voß emphasized that the new regulation should also help create incentives for alternative means of transport. "We want to cultivate parking spaces to ensure that residents can actually use the parking spaces required," explains Voß. In autumn 2023, a new mobility concept for dormant car traffic is to be presented, which is concerned with the challenges of parking in the city center.

The demand for parking space in Kiel is high in downtown and mixed areas as well as near large venues. Residents, business people and visitors often face major challenges to find a parking space. In order to counteract this problem, several residents' parking zones have already been introduced. These enable residents to park in the long term and ensure that foreign duration parkers, such as commuters, are displaced by these zones. There are a total of eight such zones in Kiel: Altstadt, Blocksberg, Düsternbrook, Gerhardstrasse, Legienstraße, Neumühlen, Prüne and Waisenhofstraße, as the Official website kiel.de reports.

adjustments to the parking regulations

The new residents parking zones are only permitted in areas with high parking pressure and a high proportion of foreign parkers. However, the parking permit does not guarantee free parking in the zones, because the signage decides where residents can park. In mixed parking spaces, vehicles with a resident parking white can park free of charge and unlimited, while in other places the rules are stricter.

Another point: Kiel's adjacent city of Lübeck has already pointed out that the currently low fees lead to inefficient use of the parking space. Studies from other cities show that an increase in fees by 10 to 30 percent in the past led to a noticeable reduction in the parked cards issued. The board and administration are still responsible for balancing the interests of residents and urban development.