ECKERNFORDE, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, on a fjord of the Baltic, 20 m. by rail N.W. from Kiel. Pop. 7,322. It has a good har bour, fishing, trade in agricultural products, and manufactures of tobacco, salt and iron goods. There is a technical school of buildings. Eckernf orde was taken by Christian IV. of Denmark in 1628 from the Imperial troops. In 1813 the Danes were defeated here. The place lost most of its trade after the union with Ger many in 1864, and suffered severely from a sea-flood in 1872. In the immediate neighb ftirhood is Borby, popular for sea-bathing.