Villa Gemmingen, Aristocratic residence in Stuttgart, Germany

Villa Gemmingen is a two- to three-storey historicist palace at Mörikestraße 12, built in 1910–1911 by Albert Eitel and Eugen Steigleder. Its mansard-hipped roof covers a building whose garden facade centres on a semicircular domed hall reached by a curved shallow stair, flanked by projecting column-supported bays. A stone-walled terrace with a swimming pool lies before it.

The villa was built between 1910 and 1911 following designs by architects Albert Eitel and Eugen Steigleder. It was commissioned by Baron Fritz von Gemmingen-Hornberg and his wife Dora Siegle to demonstrate their standing in Wurttemberg society.

The villa was a gift from Gustav von Siegle, one of the richest men in the Kingdom of Württemberg, to his daughter Helene Dora and her husband Friedrich von Gemmingen-Hornberg. The sculptors Josef Zeitler, Emil Epple and Jakob Brüllmann contributed to the design, making the house a Gesamtkunstwerk. The west front recalls the pleasure palaces Monrepos and Solitude built by Philippe de La Guêpière for Duke Carl Eugen.

The villa is privately owned and cannot be visited. The grounds sit at Mörikestraße 12, set back from the street at the southern foot of the Karlshöhe; access is via a long driveway or a curving stairway through the gate arch of the service buildings. A fence on the east side separates the property from one of the public paths up the Karlshöhe.

The villa's original wooden elevator is no longer on site but is preserved and displayed at the Elevator Museum in Mannheim-Seckenheim. This detail reveals how technological innovations of the era were incorporated into such grand homes.