 With the opening of the Prussian Eastern Railway station at neighbouring Müncheberg in 1865, followed by a direct narrow gauge railway connection to Buckow in 1897, the town due to its picturesque setting became a popular destination for daytrippers from Berlin and several well-off families had summer cottages erected.The writer Egon Kisch spent holidays here, as did the artist John Heartfield.From 1952 Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel had their summer residence in Buckow, where Brecht wrote his "Buckow Elegies" in response to the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.