Tettnang Castle, Historic castle and museum in Tettnang, Germany.
Tettnang Castle is a fortified residence and museum featuring lavish rooms filled with artwork and ornamental details across multiple chambers. The exhibitions display decorative elements and furnishings that illustrate the lifestyle and tastes of its former residents.
The castle served as the seat of the Counts of Montfort beginning in 1260 and suffered a major fire in 1753. Reconstruction under Count Franz Xaver lasted until 1770 and transformed the building's architectural character.
The first floor's decoration was made after 1753 by craftsmen from the Lake Constance area, including the stucco workers Feuchtmayr, Dirr, Moosbrugger and Gigl, the fresco painters Kuen and Brugger, and Johann Joseph Kauffmann with his daughter Angelika. The Rittersaal on the first floor can be rented for concerts and events, and the Schlossgarten hosts the Schlossgarten Open Air.
The museum can be visited only on guided tours, which start hourly; photography is not allowed during the tours. It is open six days a week, closed on Wednesdays, from Easter until 31 October. Rooms on the ground floor and second floor are used by the Tettnang district court, so visits are limited to the princely rooms of the first floor.
The castle stands on the site of a medieval fort first documented in 1246 and destroyed in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War; its ruins were cleared to make room for the new palace. In 2012 the building served as a filming location for the television satire Der Minister, about the plagiarism affair of former defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg.
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