The central Teltow Stadt railway station is part of the Berlin S-Bahn line S25.

Teltow railway station is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the south-east and is served by RegionalExpress lines 3, 4 and 5.

The main sight of the town is the Protestant St Andrew's fieldstone church of the 12th century rebuilt in 1812 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

Max Malecki (1949) and Herbert Pucher (1952) were the first two 1st secretaries of the SED district administration in Teltow.

Hans-Jürgen Starrost, Klaus Garden and Roland Hoff were killed by the GDR while attempting to escape from Teltow to West Berlin.

The second large industrial enterprise in Teltow was the VEB electronic components "Carl v. Chr.

Under the direction of Matthias Falter, the employees of the WBN research department produced the first samples of high-end transistors in 1953.

Initially, individual objects were listed as historical monuments, and in 1986, parts of the old town were declared area features.

17 (Federal waterway connection Hannover-Magdeburg-Berlin) has the goal of making the Teltow Canal according to inland waterway classification Vb for large motor cargo vessels up to 110 meters in length and push assemblies up to 185 meters in length.

Teltow is twinned with:[4] In January 2014, the honorary citizenship for Joseph Goebbels and Wilhelm Kube was withdrawn.