Villa Espenlaub, Protected villa in Barmen, Germany.

Villa Espenlaub is a residential home in Barmen built between 1926 and 1927 following modern design principles. The building displays geometric forms and functional room layouts with preserved original features including color schemes and built-in storage elements.

The house was designed in 1926 for an attorney and emerged during the Weimar Republic as an example of new building concepts. The original owner left Germany in 1933, after which the structure passed to new residents and lived through various phases of German history.

The villa's name comes from Gottlob Espenlaub, an aviation pioneer and aircraft and automobile manufacturer who lived there from 1939. The house is also known as Villa Fischer after its first owner, lawyer Walter Fischer, and as BauHausFischer. Inside, the original colour scheme and built-in wall cupboards survive from the 1920s design.

The building is located at Rudolf-Ziersch-Straße 3 in Wuppertal's Barmen district. It is a listed heritage villa that can be viewed from outside; visitors should check in advance for interior access as conditions vary.

The villa's later owners were two museum directors: Hans Günter Golinski, director of the Museum Bochum art collection, and Hans-Jürgen Schwalm, director of the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. From the 1980s they owned the house and lived there together, so a private villa at Rudolf-Ziersch-Straße 3 became a shared address of two West German art institutions.