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Today, Puchheim Castle is home to the regional music school, the tower gallery, the parish centre, the Maximilianhaus and the Redemptorist monastery.
Around 800 years ago, a so-called fortress was built in Puchheim, which burnt down completely in 1585. The castle was rebuilt in its present form by the Pollheim family. It was acquired by Count Adam von Herberstorff in 1627. From 1636 to 1760, the castle belonged to the Salburg family. The family of the Counts of Fuchs owned the castle from 1762 to 1838.Archduke Maximilian dÉste, a grandson of Empress Maria Theresa, acquired the Puchheim estate in 1838. In 1851, Maximilian brings the Redemptorists to Puchheim and gives them part of the main castle. The Bourbons inherit the castle in 1886.
Rosenborg Palace was built in the period 1606-34 as Christian IV’s summerhouse just outside the ramparts of Copenhagen. Christian IV was very fond of the palace and often stayed at the castle when he resided in Copenhagen, and it was here that he died in 1648. After his death, the palace passed to his son King Frederik III, who together with his queen, Sophie Amalie, carried out several types of modernisation.
The last king who used the place as a residence was Frederik IV, and around 1720, Rosenborg was abandoned in favor of Frederiksborg Palace.Through the 1700s, considerable art treasures were collected at Rosenborg Castle, among other things items from the estates of deceased royalty and from Christiansborg after the fire there in 1794.
Soon the idea of a museum arose, and that was realised in 1833, which is The Royal Danish Collection’s official year of establishment.