ECKERNFURDE  , 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 . (1g(35) 7088 . It has a good harbour, fishing, trade in agricultural products, and manufactures of tobacco, salt and iron goods . There are a technical school of building and a Protestant teachers' seminary . Eckernforde is mentioned as far back as 1197 . It was taken.by Christian IV. of Denmark in 1628 from the-Imperial troops . In 1813 the Danes were defeated here, while in 1849 the harbour was the scene of the blowing up of the Danish line-of-battle ship " Christian VIII." and of the surrender of the frigate " Gefion " after an engagement with the German shore batteries . The place lost most of its trade after -the union with Germany in 1864, and suffered severely from a sea-flood in 1872 . In the immediate neighbourhood is the village of Borby, much frequented for sea-bathing .