Villa Baedeker, Cultural heritage villa in Zentrum-West, Leipzig, Germany

Villa Baedeker is a two-storey city villa at Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße 64 in Leipzig's Bachviertel, built in 1874/75 to plans by building director Julius Hoffmann for publisher Fritz Baedeker. The house has a high basement, ornate plasterwork, fluted pilasters and a rounded corner turret under a mansard roof. Since 2009 it has housed an ENT surgical clinic and the IRDC surgical-technology centre.

Julius Hoffmann designed the villa for publisher Fritz Baedeker, and it was built in 1874/75 on what was then Plagwitzer Strasse. Architect Bruno Eelbo remodelled it around 1901. After the Baedeker publishing house in Nürnberger Strasse was destroyed in World War II, the villa served as alternative premises; the family moved out in 1948.

The villa is named after Fritz Baedeker, the Leipzig travel-book publisher for whom it was built in 1874/75. From 1953 to 1998 it housed the FDJ youth hostel "Georg Schumann", so for decades the building served young travellers rather than the publishing family.

The villa is located in a densely built neighborhood and is visible from the street. Visitors should note that the building now functions as a medical and research facility, so access may be restricted.

The mansard roof showcases the refined architectural tastes of Leipzig's wealthy merchant families from that era. A distinctive feature is the villa's position overlooking the exposed Elstermühlgraben waterway on its rear side, made visible since the 2000s.