Kiel is a city in Calumet and Manitowoc counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 3,738 at the 2010 census. Of this, 3,429 residents lived in Manitowoc County, and 309 residents lived in Calumet County. The city is located primarily within Manitowoc County, though a share extends west into next Calumet County and is known as “Hinzeville”.

Kiel was taking into consideration known as the “Wooden Shoes Capital of Wisconsin,” as it held the lonesome wooden shoes factory in Wisconsin.

In 1852 Charley Lindemann immigrated to the area and began a unity among the Native American Menominee and Potawatomi tribes. His wife named the community after her home town of Kiel, Germany. Two years later, Col. Henry F. Belitz, later nicknamed the “Father of Kiel”, built a hotel and mill along the north side of the Sheboygan River. A road was built across Wisconsin to connect Green Bay bearing in mind Milwaukee area communities. The bridge was built across the Sheboygan River in 1858 connecting Kiel in imitation of Sheboygan. In the late nineteenth century to the to the fore twentieth century, Kiel became a manufacturing Place with businesses specializing in brick, wood shoes, machine, and furniture manufacturing.

A stamp album called Yellowbird written by Kielite Henry Goeres in the late 1800s recounts – in a blend of fact and fiction – the before history of the agreement in the 1850s in the same way as European settlers interacted once Native Americans in the area.