 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 "Kieler Zeitung" (founded 1864) and the "Kieler Neueste Nachrichten" (founded 1894).