Trip duration: 1-2 days
Travel duration: 2 hours
Travel price: 19.80€ return (2.10€ S-Bahn, 6.4€ Eisenbahn, 1.40€ Bus)
Accommodation price: from 15€ to 75€ per night/per person
Buckow is a very small town in the middle of the Märkische Schweiz, a natural park. It is surrounded by lakes and forests, quiet and relaxing. Full of little restaurants, cafes, paths through the forest and around the lake. It’s the perfect place to relax and lay under the sun and swim in the lake in summer, and the perfect place to play with the snow and ice-skate on the lake in winter.
It also has a taste of past better times, maybe during the DDR. Some buildings by the lake are abandoned and not particularly protected to not be trespassed. For those who like abandoned buildings, here you will find some interesting ones.
How to get there from Berlin
Go to the S-Bahn Station Lichtenberg (2.30€)
Take the Eisenbahn to Müncheberg (6.40€ / 40min.)
In Müncheberg take the bus 928 to Bückow Markt (1.40€ / 15min.)
Where to sleep
You can find quite a wide range of hotels and rooms for the size of the town. I recommend you to check this website (http://www.buckow-online.de/) and decide for your own.
Our personal experience was renting a room at Familie Grahl’s house, at the top floor with views to the lake. This lovely old couple rent their only left room and share with their costumers thier gorgeous terrace with a dock, boat and swans directly on the lake. The room is quite particular: it has a kitchen and everything you need to live there. A TV, a kettle, coffee machine, toaster, enormous double bed, a DDR radio and a bathroom outside the room with a shower.
Costs: 15€ per night/per person (+2,5€ if it’s a short stay)
Breakfast: 4€ per person
Frau Inge Grahl
grahl.bu@gmx.de
+49 (0) 33 433 572 83
Hauptstraße 9,15377 Buckow
Where to eat
If you are planning to go there on a weekend and you will arrive in town later than saturday at noon, make sure you have money to pay your meals at a restaurant or bring your own food. The only supermarket in town closes on saturday at noon and opens on sunday from 8:00 to 10:00am. In case you didn’t pack food or bring money, there is a Sparkasse in the center of town.
There is a wide range of restaurants in this little town, but definitely, the only one I would repeat would be the Fischerkehle. This place is a bit far from everything else. Hidden in the path around the Schermützesee, in a little bay, looking at the lake there is this villa-looking like restaurant. Every single detail is thought through in this restaurant. You have old silver cutlery, old glass pendant lamps, beautiful table cloths, an excellent service and a touch of glamour.
Fischerkehle
Am Fischerberg
715377 Buckow
+49 (0) 33 433 374
http://www.restaurant-fischerkehle.de/
To get to this lovely place you have to walk through the path around the Schermützesee, starting from Berthol-Brecht’s house. It’s a lovely walk and a hot chocolate with cream will compensate the walk.
A good option when it’s hot is the Restaurant right across the beach in Wriezener Straße. I can’t recall the name, but it’s a good place for an easy cheap meal or a good cake.
Here’s a list of restaurants in the area: http://www.maerkischeschweiz.com/urlaub/restaurant.php
What to do
Walk around the lake Schermützesee
Walk through the forest and visit other lakes (Tornowsee)
Swim in the lake
Rent a rowboat
Get on a boat around the lake for 1h
Eat an ice cream at the beach
Bird watching
Sneak in abandoned buildings
for those who speak german
things to visit
“wandern” routes
bike trips
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