Soteska Mansion, 17th century mansion in Soteska, Slovenia

Soteska Mansion is a 17th-century manor house located in rural Slovenia, with a rectangular shape and four corner towers. The building surrounds an interior courtyard bordered by two-story arcades on all sides.

Count Jurij Žiga Gallenberg had the mansion built between 1664 and 1689 on the site of a 15th-century tower that had been destroyed. On 22 October 1943 Partisans looted and burned it, and locals later used the ruin as a quarry. Across the Krka stand the ruins of the medieval Stara Soteska castle.

The mansion was built on the site of a 15th-century tower, and its name in German, Ainöd, is not explained in the sources. Nearby stands the Devil's Tower, about which a folk tale tells of a lord who demanded serfs send their daughters instead of paying taxes; the peasants cursed the place and named it Hudičev turn.

The mansion stands in the village of Soteska in the Dolenjske Toplice municipality, with the ruins of the medieval Stara Soteska castle on the opposite bank of the Krka. The burned-out manor was later quarried by locals, so the structure is a shell rather than a roofed building. The Devil's Tower stands in its immediate vicinity.

Near the mansion stands Hudičev turn (Devil's Tower). Folk tradition says a lord of Soteska, during a famine, demanded a tax the serfs could not pay and instead took their daughters; the peasants cursed the spot and named it after the devil. The tower is the one element of the estate the locals did not quarry.