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Eckernförde

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

Eckernförde
Eckernförde · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Goossee

    Goossee is a lake in Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

    3.8 km · lake nearby Eckernförde · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Windebyer 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
  3. 03
    Bültsee

    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
  4. 04
    Oberer 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Museum Eckernförde
  2. 02
    St. Nicolai.
  3. 03
    Borbyer Kirche
  4. 04
    Alte Fischräucherei Eckernförde

From Wikivoyage: Eckernförde, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

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 → Eckernförde
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · €12–17
  • Bremen → Eckernförde
    169 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · €23–32
  • Hannover → Eckernförde
    233 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · €27–38
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    252 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    345 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    861 km
  4. 04
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    869 km
  5. 05
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    917 km

If you know how people move in Eckernförde – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Eckernförde

  • Gammelbymunicipality of Germany4.1 km
  • Barkelsbymunicipality of Germany3.2 km
  • Windebymunicipality of Germany3.3 km
  • Goosefeldmunicipality of Germany4.7 km
  • Altenhofmunicipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany4.9 km
  • Loosemunicipality of Germany5.6 km