You can see them especially well at low tide: The shipwrecks of Blankenese make the Falkensteiner Ufer a very special place. They rise mystically and bizarre out of the water and remind of the past days of the Hanseatic city. Today the wrecks serve as breakwaters to protect the shore. You can see the shipwrecks of Blankenese particularly well if you walk along the beach path towards Falkensteiner Ufer directly along the Elbe at low tide. The “Polstjernan” - a wooden wreck that is over 90 years old
The oldest shipwreck on Falkensteiner Ufer is the Finnish schooner and later motor sailer “Polstjernan”. The ship caught fire on October 20, 1926 en route to England in what is now the Kiel Canal. The ship, loaded with wood, was in flames within a few moments and could no longer be extinguished. The “Polstjernan” was finally brought to the Falkensteiner Ufer by tugs from a Blankenese salvage company, where the remains can still be seen between the groynes at low tide. The inland ship "Uwe" - probably the most famous shipwreck on the Elbe
The "Uwe" capsized in thick fog on December 19, 1975 in a particularly unfortunate way: The freighter "Wiedau" initially collided with the Polish freighter "Mieczyslaw Kalinowski", turned into the course of the "Uwe" by the collision and divided the barge the middle through. Two crew members were killed. The captain of the "Uwe" and 16 members escaped to the Wittenbergen jetty. The ship was towed to the Falkensteiner Ufer, where the foredeck protrudes from the Elbe at low tide.