Villa Thomana, Heritage villa in Zentrum-West district, Leipzig, Germany

Villa Thomana is a historicist villa at Sebastian-Bach-Straße 3, on the corner of Hillerstraße in Leipzig's Bachviertel. Max Pommer built it from 1881 to 1883 on Italian models for the merchant Friedrich Willibald Ledig. Its ground-floor foyer has wall paintings in ancient Pompeian style, with block zones imitating marble and panels framed in black on Pompeian red; the imitation wooden ceilings were stencilled.

Master builder Max Pommer constructed this Italian-style residence between 1881 and 1883 for wealthy Leipzig merchant Friedrich Willibald Ledig. In later decades, the building became associated with the St. Thomas Boys Choir and the Cantor's office, linking it to the city's musical heritage.

The house is named after the Thomanerchor, whose rehearsal centre it became in 2008. The ground-floor Kammermusiksaal Freiherr von Salmuth, formed from the former salon and living room, is used for chamber music. In the basement, the choir members have a fitness room, a model railway room and the editorial office of their website KastenJournal.

The interior is generally closed to the public as the building functions as a rehearsal and office space for the choir. Visitors can appreciate the impressive exterior facades and architectural details from the street.

The basement rooms, eaten by dry rot before restoration, were rebuilt, and the attic fully converted; today it holds the choir's sheet-music library and the office of its support association. Down in the cellar, the Thomaner have a fitness room and a model railway room.