Lützowova vila, Empire style villa in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

Lützowova vila is a Romantic Empire-style villa built in 1853–54 on a slope above the Teplá River. Its asymmetrical layout is one storey on the uphill side and two on the downhill side, with corner projections, a tower-like central bay, a flat roof with a hint of crenellation, and a facade divided by pilasters with Tuscan capitals.

Baron August Friedrich Ulrich von Lützow commissioned the villa in 1853 and it was completed in 1854 by Karlovy Vary builder Johann Knoll. Lützow, who moved to the spa town in 1846, had the villa built on a slope above the Teplá and donated other structures to the city. After his death in 1872, the childless baron's villa passed to the city and was auctioned; it later served as a residence and, after 1971, as a recreation home for airport employees.

Baron Lützow had a cat sculpture on a column near the villa turned with its back to the Tržiště square, where the town hall then stood. It is said to mock the councillors who refused his request for a private cable car from the colonnade to the villa.

You can view the exterior of this protected monument while walking through Karlovy Vary. The house is centrally located and easily reached on foot, with public transportation options nearby.

Only the cat sculpture survives of the statues that once stood around the villa; the rest were moved elsewhere in the city after the baron's death. The cat sits on a column in the park rondel, its back turned toward the former town hall site at Tržiště, said to mock councillors who refused Lützow a private cable car.