Buckow ( or ) is a locality (''Ortsteil'') within the Berlin borough (''Bezirk'') of Neukölln.

History

The village was founded in 1373 by German

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probably at the place of an earlier Wends' village of the name ''Buk'' (a Beech tree) spelled along with its patronymic suffix ''-ow''. Until 1920 Buckow was a municipality of the former Teltow district, merged into Berlin with the " Greater Berlin Act". From 1961 to 1989 its borders with

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were crossed by the

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due to its position in the boundaries of

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with

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. In ''Goldammerstraße'' 34 is situated an historical smock mill, the '' Jungfernmühle'',History of the Jungfernmühle on www.berlin.de
one of the oldest of Berlin. It was built in 1753 (or 1757) and it has only shutter wing and wind rose mockups without functions. Active until 1980 to ground grain into flour, it was the last mill used in the city and today its walls accommodate a restaurant.

Geography

Overview

Situated in the southern suburb of Berlin, Buckow is the only ''Ortsteil'' counting an

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(Buckow-II), separated from mainland by the Gropiusstadt. The other Berliner localities bordering with Buckow are Britz, Rudow, Lichtenrade and Mariendorf (both in Tempelhof-Schöneberg district). Buckow also has a boundary with the

er municipality of Schönefeld ( Dahme-Spreewald district), and its residential area is contiguous with the civil parish of Großziethen.

Subdivisión

Buckow is divided into 2 zones (''Ortslagen''): * Buckow-I (the mainland) * Buckow-II (the exclave)

Transport

The locality is not served by urban railways, but nearest stations ( Johannisthaler Chaussee and Lipschitzallee, on the '' U-Bahn'' line U7), located in the Gropiusstadt, are not too far from the locality. It is served by the bus lines M11, M44, X11, 112, 171, 172, 179, 272 and 736. The X71 bus travels between the BER airport and U Alt Mariendorf.

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{{Authority control Localities of Berlin * Populated places established in the 1370s