Eckernförde
Eckernförde is a city located in the Kreis of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany.

Eckernförde is a city located in the Kreis of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. Situated on the coast of the Baltic Sea, approximately 30 km north-west of Kiel, it has a population of about 23,000. Eckernförde is a popular tourist destination.
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Worth seeing in and around Eckernförde
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Goossee
Goossee is a lake in Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
3.8 km · lake nearby Eckernförde · Wikipedia - 02Windebyer Noor
Windebyer Noor is a lake in Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At an elevation of 0 m, its surface area is 389.3 ha.
2 km · lake in Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Bültsee
Bültsee is a kettle lake in Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At an elevation of 9.35 m, its surface area is 0.078 square miles.
5.9 km · lake in Kosel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Oberer Eimersee
Bucket Lake Eimersee) is an artificial lake and restored wetland in Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It has a surface elevation of 14 m, and its surface area is 1.5 ha.
1.9 km · small lake in Eckernförde · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Museum Eckernförde
- 02St. Nicolai.
- 03Borbyer Kirche
- 04Alte Fischräucherei Eckernförde
From Wikivoyage: Eckernförde, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Eckernförde
- Airports
- Hamburg Helmut Schmidt (HAM), 94 km · Odense Hans Christian Andersen (ODE), 116 km · Billund (BLL), 147 km
- Stations
- Eckernförde station, 700 m
- Hamburg → Eckernförde103 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · €12–17
- Bremen → Eckernförde169 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · €23–32
- Hannover → Eckernförde233 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · €27–38
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Eckernförde
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Eckernförde. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are ferries from Gothenburg and Oslo to Kiel.
From Wikivoyage: Kiel Bay, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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