The identity of the architect remains unclear but it may have been Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder or Hercules von Oberberg.

This Renaissance castle was adapted to the Baroque style for Gerhard de Lichtenberg with the assistance of Nicolaus Hinrich Rieman.

By 1740 it was a white-washed building with a black-glazed tile roof and onion domes topping the four towers.

Engelsholm was purchased and turned into a folk high school in 1939, from 1952 run as a self-owning institution.

Housing for students and faculty has later been built next to the castle to a design by Jens Malling Pedersen (b.