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Buckow Private Golf Course, Waldsieversdorf. (1930-1945)
The German Golf Association's yearbook for 1931 lists a private golf course at Buckow.
Located between Waldsieversdorf and the Bergschäferei (a few kilometres away from Buckow at an area still today called “Rotes Luch”), the course was popularly called the "Golfsteppe" (=steppe), which certainly says something about the nature of this course. According to tradition, the grass of the golf course was kept short by sheep grazing on the course.
The golf course was mainly played by Countess Marie-Louise zuDohna-Schloddien (née Horstmann, 1882-1968) and her family. The children usually were invited into the Countess's big car and they went from Buckow castle to the golf course together with the Countess, where they spent the whole day, ate sandwiches they had brought with them at lunchtime and the boys carried the golf bags, as a contemporary witness told the author in an interview in 2002.
A certain Mr Michaelis gave the Countess both tennis and golf lessons. In 1945, the Countess fled from the Russians, leaving behind large valuables in Buckowcastle; she made her way and moved in with her daughter who lived in Switzerland. The private golf course disappeared in 1945 at the latest.
Christoph Meister
April 2023