Herrenhaus Kleßen, Manor house in Kleßen-Görne, Germany

Herrenhaus Kleßen is a manor house in Kleßen-Görne featuring solid stone walls and classical facade elements in the Havelland region. A spacious English-style garden completes the property and reinforces its character as an estate for the gentry.

The manor was built as a noble residence and embodies the architecture of Brandenburg's estates, which developed over several centuries. These buildings shaped rural social structures and reveal how land ownership and power were organized in this region.

The name Kleßen is documented as a noble seat since the 13th century, and the estate stayed with the von Bredow family for many centuries. The writer Theodor Fontane visited owner Alfred Georg Hans Hermann Graf von Bredow in 1889 and made floor-plan sketches of the house that survive. After 1945 the building served the village as a cooperative shop, kindergarten, village cinema and, until 1981, a retirement home.

The manor stands at Lindenplatz 1 in the centre of Kleßen, in the municipality of Kleßen-Görne. Since a private renovation around 1999 it has served mainly as housing, so the building is not open to visitors as a museum; the address and the surrounding village centre are what a visitor can locate on site.

The manor was owned by the von Bredow family until 1932, when Joachim (Achim) Graf von Bredow went bankrupt and had to transfer the estate to the Ritterschaftsbank. It was later bought by former corvette captain Hermann Ehrhardt, who hid in the estate's forests during the Röhm Putsch.