Tentschach Castle

The castle has a rectangular floor plan and features mighty round towers at three corners. It is three stories high. The inner courtyard is approximately square; around 1700, it received arcades: pillar arcades on the ground floor, above which are pilasters reaching to the bases of the upper-floor arcades. The latter were glazed in the 19th century. On the exterior, a Neo-Romanesque arch frieze was added under the eaves in the mid-19th century. The tower is missing at the northeast corner, where the building wings merge unorganically. This part is considered the oldest section of the complex.

The round-arched portal is located in the middle of the east wing, above it a polygonal oriel with pilasters. At the corners are round-arched windows and family coats of arms: on the left that of the Goschen family, in the middle Kaiserstein, on the right an empty escutcheon with the inscription: whoever inherits Tentschach once, owns it and here is space for his coat of arms. The windows feature bull's-eye and armorial panes from the second half of the 19th century, created by Jakob Wald. The roof is partly covered with stone slabs, and on it stands a small, wooden clock tower.

In the hall on the first floor, there are further coats of arms of the Kaiserstein family as well as portraits of former owners. Among the partly valuable furnishings, the round dining room table, three meters in diameter, is noteworthy. The rooms on the second floor are partly equipped with stucco ceilings from the late 17th century and with valuable doors.

In the ground floor of the northeast tower is the chapel, consecrated to Saint Nicholas in 1700. Above the entrance is a pre-Romanesque architrave. This shows four crosses enclosed by circles. The altar is magnificent and column-free, dating from about 1710: the main painting depicts the Holy Family, the upper painting God the Father. The paintings are framed by rich acanthus tendrils. The tracery windows contain Neo-Gothic two-part stained glass with ornaments and coats of arms of the Pibriach, Grössing, Gera, Pruggmayer, Kaiserstein, and Goschen families.