Windmühlenstraße 16, Early 20th-century villa in Weimar, Germany

Windmühlenstraße 16 is a residence from the early 1900s with large windows and refined decorative details across its exterior. A park-like garden surrounds the building and gives the property a sense of spaciousness.

Rudolf Zapfe designed this residence in 1906 for Wilhelm Robert Deinhardt, a brewery owner from the region. The family lived here until 1937 and shaped the property's appearance through care and modifications.

The villa's name comes from the brewery owner Wilhelm Robert Deinhardt, who had it built in 1906. Later the building at Windmühlenstraße 16 housed the youth hostel "Ernst Thälmann", named after the German communist leader. The house is listed as an individual monument in Weimar's register of cultural monuments.

The monument is visible from the street and easy to access by public transportation. Walking through this area reveals several similar properties built during the same period.

A photographer documented the property in 1928 from the neighboring Selve property, creating a rare visual record of the grounds from that era. This image preserves how the house looked at that moment in time.