The Manor House of Tellow has a exceeding design and so it attracts the interest of the visitors.

It was built about 1800 as an simple symmetric building. Since 1810 Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783 to 1850) and his family lived here. The last von Thünen left Tellow childless in 1896.

The following owners were representatives of the German nobility: barons of  Kettenburg. They had to demolish the eastern part of the building. About two decades later the entrance was relocated.

Up to 1945, the landholder Ulrich Alwardt with his family lived  here. Later, during  the period  of the G.D.R. (German Democratic Republic), there are in the first floor an outpost of the regional agricultural school. The teacher was living in the Manor House.

In 1969,  the first room - called "local room" - in German "Heimatstube", today the "Reuterstube" -  was opend to the public. Pupils of the study project "Nature and Local Research" exhibited under the leadership of Rolf-Peter Bartz their "treasures", which they founded in our area.

In march 1972, the Thünen-Museum-Tellow was opened to the general public.

Today the building with the Thünen exhibition is open to the public as National Thünen Memorial. The preservation and the museal utility of the Tellow Manor House is the central request, because Johann Heinrich von Thünen operated here as an world-known agronomist and economist and as an unforgetable reformer.

In the second floor is situated the library and archive section of the museum.

We would be very delighted, if you could support the preservation of the Thünen Manor House. Please approach to the Thünen Foundation!