Schloss Dietach, Renaissance castle in Schleißheim, Austria

Schloss Dietach is a Renaissance castle in Schleißheim featuring an irregular octagonal floor plan with multiple extensions. The three-story structure is crowned by a distinctive turret topped with a steep double-pitched roof.

Rudolf von Dudich appears in a Kremsmünster charter in 1170, and Ulrich von Tuedich held the fief in 1260. In 1383 Duke Albrecht III allowed the Wels citizen Ulrich Haunold to rebuild the seat in stone, on condition that the wall not be made thick. The Pirchinger family carried out the first extension of the tower; Philipp von Grienthal gave the building its present form.

The chapel in the entrance hall, left of the castle, has a window dated 1674. It holds the "Gisela chest", around which several stories are told of a bride named Gisela who suffocated in it while playing on her wedding day and was found only years later.

The castle stands in an overgrown park and is private property; it cannot be visited. The gate to the park, with a volute gable and three pyramids, is visible from outside. The building lies in Schleißheim in the Wels-Land district, about 5 km east of Wels.

The chapel in the entrance hall, left of the castle, has a window dated 1674 and holds the Gisela chest. Legend says a bride named Gisela suffocated in it while playing on her wedding day and was found only years later.