Badstraße 64, Demolished neo-baroque villa in Heilbronn, Germany

Badstraße 64, known as Villa Angele, was a neo-baroque house built in 1925 to plans by Hermann Steus for Berta Angele. It had bay windows, balconies with semi-circular windows topped by keystones, and a copper-covered turret. The building was demolished in February 2010.

The building was constructed in 1925 according to designs by architect Hermann Steus for entrepreneur Berta Angele. It survived World War II with only minor roof damage while neighboring structures were destroyed.

The Angele family ran a laundry with an ironing room here until 1944; after the war the steam laundry continued, employing 30 to 50 people as laundresses, stokers and drivers. Apartments in the house were also rented out, and from 1958 the Blomert family lived in one of them.

The villa no longer exists: it was demolished in February 2010, so there is nothing left to visit at Badstraße 64. The site lies in central Heilbronn, in front of the Kaufland delivery yard and international sampling centre whose expansion plans led to the demolition.

The heritage office judged the house "nothing special nationwide" and the architect "second-rate", so it was not protected. Yet the same office conceded that a building can be locally important but nationally insignificant. The villa was demolished in February 2010 despite protests, after Lidl & Schwarz bought it to clear space for the Kaufland delivery yard.