Landfrasova vila, villa in Jindřichův Hradec IV, Czech Republic

Landfrasova vila is a one-storey Empire-style house with a square plan and a hipped roof with dormer windows, built in 1827 to Josef Schaffer's design. The two-level main façade is divided by a cordon cornice, a crowning cornice with plain friezes and pilasters; the rectangular windows have plain stone surrounds. Behind it lies a terraced garden on a slope above the Nežárka.

Alois Landfras, a printer, translator and publisher, began the family villa with its garden on Karlov in 1825 or 1826, though sources also cite 1835 in the foundation deed; Josef Schaffer led the design. The garden with terraces, arbours and garden structures was laid out between 1826 and 1839. A rectangular annex was added on the northwest side in 1937 under Matouš Glaser, and the villa has been a cultural monument since 1958.

In the second half of the 19th century the villa and its garden became a centre of the town's social and cultural life. Guests included the poet Josef Václav Frič in 1843, and in 1911 the writer Růžena Svobodová spent the summer here with her husband František Xaver Svoboda, visited by the critic František Xaver Šalda. Vilém Landfras added a bowling alley (kuželník) in the garden with its own entrance, later used as a sala terrena.

The villa is located on Karlov street on the left bank of the Nežárka river and remains visible from the street. Visitors can view the exterior architecture and remaining garden features from public access points without needing special arrangements.

The garden held a mock medieval ruin in the form of a tower with a spiral staircase and battlements, and on the fourth terrace stood a small hermitage with a moving figure of a hermit and a bell tower. A fire destroyed the garden on 21 April 1865, consuming the theatre pavilion, the garden salon, the skittle alley connected to the house and the greenhouse.