Villa Rosa, Heritage villa in Glocksee district, Hannover, Germany

Villa Rosa is a two-story classical residential building in Hannover with a plaster facade, triangular gable, and carefully designed windows located at Glockseestraße 1. The house displays the typical domestic architecture of the 19th century for prosperous citizens.

The villa was built in the first half of the 19th century; its design was first drafted by court master mason Ernst Ludwig Täntzel, then revised by court building officer Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves, who rotated the plan 180 degrees to face the garden salon south toward the city moat. In 1830 Friedrich Christian August Eisendecher, head of the general tax treasury, moved in. The name "Villa Rosa" first appeared in the 1844 address book under Baron Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein.

The building demonstrates how prosperous citizens relocated their homes during the 19th century and built grand houses beyond the old city walls. It represents a moment in urban development when city life reorganized itself.

Villa Rosa stands at Glockseestraße 1 in the Glocksee quarter of Calenberger Neustadt, near the Ihme and the former Humboldtstraße cut. The plastered facade with its 3:5 axis rhythm and the rear stair annex added around 1900 can be seen from the public street; the interior is not open to visitors. The site lies on the block between Glocksee-, Wieland- and Humboldtstraße.

The villa is the last surviving garden house from the historic Glocksee garden settlement, a formerly prosperous residential development. This settlement has almost completely disappeared today, making this sole remainder particularly valuable.