Town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Eckernförde

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

Every way there

Hamburg → Eckernförde
103 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · €12–17
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Bremen → Eckernförde
169 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · €23–32
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Hannover → Eckernförde
233 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · €27–38
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Eckernförde, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Eckernförde has

YScheduled flightsHamburg (HAM), 94 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 100 timetable feeds for this country, 7 with real-time
YFerriesKappeln-Schleimünde, 22 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

54.474°, 9.838°

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.

Get in

Getting to Eckernförde

01
Bahnhof Eckernförde

See

Worth seeing

01
Museum Eckernförde
02
St. Nicolai.
03
Borbyer Kirche
04
Alte Fischräucherei Eckernförde

How locals move

Getting around Eckernförde the local way

Get inThere are ferries from Gothenburg and Oslo to Kiel.

From Wikivoyage: Kiel Bay, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-05.

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