Schloss Reckahn, Baroque manor in Kloster Lehnin, Germany

Schloss Reckahn is a roughly 30-metre-long, single-storey three-winged manor with a mansard roof, built in the Schlüter Baroque style. Its two-storey central section, emphasised like a corps de logis, holds the entrance portal and staircase on the courtyard side and two halls on the garden side. The eleven-axis facade is restrained with rustication, pilasters and cornices.

The manor was built between 1726 and 1730 by Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Rochow and replaced an older Renaissance building. The design followed baroque principles and made the estate a center of Enlightenment ideas.

The Rochow Museum, opened in 2001, takes its title from Rochow's reader "Der Kinderfreund", a textbook used in rural schools across Europe. Nearby, the former Reckahn village school, opened by Rochow in 1773, was the kingdom's first two-class village school; its teaching method was copied by other European countries. A permanent display honours the first teacher, Heinrich Julius Bruns.

The rooms are easily accessible on foot and well organized with information signs and displays. Plan time to explore the different exhibition areas and the grounds around the manor.

The manor's last private owner was Harry von Rochow, an Olympic equestrian medallist who died in 1945; his relative Felicitas von Rochow was the last family member to live here. The estate archive survived largely intact and is now held at the Brandenburg Main State Archive in Potsdam.