Gottschedstraße 22, Protected residential building in Inner Westvorstadt, Leipzig, Germany

Gottschedstraße 22 is a protected four-story residential building in Neo-Renaissance style in Leipzig's Westvorstadt with eight window axes on the facade. The ground floor houses a restaurant and two retail spaces, while the attic level contains four maisonette apartments.

Pfeifer & Händel planned the house in 1882 for builder Carl Eduard Sperling; the ground floor was first rebuilt in 1887. In 1909 merchant Edmund Wagner bought it and had Polster & Höhne remodel the ground floor, adding two flats and six chambers in the attic in 1910. Under the GDR the city administered and rented it; after 1990 it returned to pre-war owners' descendants, who had Elmar Nolte direct a thorough renovation in 1999–2001.

The building's name comes from the Gottschedstrasse address, named after the writer Johann Christoph Gottsched. Inside, visitors can see the representative staircase with an oak stair, turned balusters, corner columns and rich architectural painting of marbled panels, plus original coloured window glazing and stucco ceilings in the flats.

The facade faces Gottschedstraße in Leipzig's Innere Westvorstadt, and the eight-axis frontage is best read from the opposite pavement. The ground floor, rebuilt in 1909 with a rusticated pier structure, now holds a restaurant and two shops entered from the street. Look up at the mansard roof with its eight dormers.

After German reunification, the building came back to descendants of its original owners, who completely redesigned it between 1999 and 2001 under architect Elmar Nolte's direction. This careful restoration preserved the historical structure while making it functional for modern residential and commercial use.