Deutschvilla, Protected heritage villa in Strobl, Austria.

Deutschvilla is a former summer house near the Wolfgangsee in Strobl, enlarged in 1923/24 by architect Viktor Kafka in the style of a Tuscan villa. The ground floor holds an entrance with panelled walls and a wooden ceiling, a gentlemen's room, a dining room and a veranda facing east; bedrooms and bathrooms are upstairs, staff rooms in the converted attic, kitchen and utility rooms in the basement.

The house was built around 1906 for Viennese entrepreneur George Schinteliffe-Blakey on land he bought in 1896. In 1923/24 the banker Otto Deutsch and his wife Maria had it enlarged and remodelled by architect Viktor Kafka, and the villa takes its name from this family, not from the works.

The villa takes its name from the Deutsch family, Viennese banker Otto Deutsch and his wife Maria, who bought it in the early 1920s for their summer holidays. Since 1999 the association "Deutschvilla – Verein zur Förderung aktueller Kunst" has held exhibitions in the summer half-year, two rooms each year devoted to deceased artists such as Georg Trakl, Christine Lavant and Susanne Wenger. Concerts, readings, lectures and symposia run alongside the shows.

The villa stands in Strobl, a short distance from the Wolfgangsee. Exhibitions run in the summer half of the year, with concerts, readings and lectures alongside them; the association has leased the house since 2000. The entrance hall's reconstructed paintings and wall coverings are worth a look on the way in.

The villa was confiscated in 1938 and used as a home of the Bund Deutscher Mädel; the Jewish Deutsch family was formally expropriated in 1942. After the war, in the US occupation zone, the American military ran an officers' club with bar and café there until 1955. The property was returned to the Deutsch family in 1948.