Villa Porsche, Private residence in Stuttgart-Nord, Germany

Villa Porsche is a one- to two-storey country house at Feuerbacher Weg 48/50 in Stuttgart-Nord, built in 1923 by architects Paul Bonatz and Fritz Scholer. It has an asymmetrical gabled roof, windows of varying sizes and shapes, and walls of full brick with wooden beam ceilings above the ground floor. A red sandstone base and retaining walls accompany the house.

Ferdinand Porsche left Austro-Daimler in Wiener Neustadt in spring 1923 to join Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in Stuttgart, and that same year commissioned architects Paul Bonatz and Fritz Scholer to build this country house. In 1935/36 its garage and workshop produced the first three prototypes of the KdF-Wagen, later the VW Beetle. Damaged in a 1943 air raid, the villa was lived in by the Porsche family again from March 1950 until Ferry Porsche's death in 1998.

The villa was designed in 1923 by Paul Bonatz and Fritz Scholer, both linked to the Stuttgart School that formed at the Technical University of Stuttgart. Its garden layout, paths, rose beds and the small pond on the south-east gable end are attributed to Scholer, a keen gardener. The house is now used by Porsche AG as a guest house.

The villa at Feuerbacher Weg 48/50 is a private guesthouse of Porsche AG and not open to visitors. The sloping Feuerbacher Heide site is best reached on foot from the Stuttgart-Nord tram stops; the narrow residential street offers no dedicated parking. The Theodor-Heuss-Haus next door at number 46 is a separate memorial site.

The garage was extended northward by 6.30 metres for the three KdF-Wagen prototypes of 1935/36, with workbenches, two lathes and a drill installed inside and a temporary filling station set up in the north-west corner of the yard. Workshop activity ended when Porsche Werk 1 opened in Zuffenhausen in June 1938.