Gösting Castle

Gösting Castle is a Baroque castle in Styria. It is located at the foot of the castle hill by the Thalbach stream in the 13th district of Graz, Gösting. The building is accessible via bus line 40, which has its terminus in front of the castle.

After a lightning strike in the powder magazine and subsequent fire that destroyed Gösting Castle in 1723, its then owner, Count Ignaz Maria von Attems, decided not to rebuild it. The architect Johann Georg Stengg was then commissioned to build a summer residence, which was to be located directly next to the Thalerbach stream. However, some lunette vaults on the ground floor indicate an older building structure, on which the castle was built from 1724 to 1728; presumably the remains of a 17th-century administrative building.

After the completion of the construction in 1728, the interior decoration was only finished in 1735. In the years 1844/45, the French garden was transformed into an English park. In 1891, Karl Lacher provided the plans for a partial redesign of the interiors. The Attems family owned Gösting Castle until 1955, before it was sold to Hans and Grete Totz, who undertook the structural repair of the war damage. The interior suffered due to the rental of numerous rooms as living spaces for guest workers. In 1960, the exterior was renovated, and in 1967, the roof was renewed. Gösting Castle remains in private ownership.