Villa Reitzenstein

The Villa Reitzenstein was built between 1910 and 1913 for Baroness Helene von Reitzenstein, daughter of the Stuttgart publisher Eduard Hallberger. Architects Hugo Schlösser and Johann Weirether drew inspiration from trips to France and Italy for the construction, which was designed in the French Baroque style as a two-story, three-wing complex made of Maulbronn sandstone. Even then, the villa featured a central hot water heating system. After only nine years, Helene von Reitzenstein left Stuttgart, and the villa was temporarily used as a military hospital during World War I. In 1922, the state of Württemberg acquired the villa, originally intending to house the Imperial Administrative Court there, a plan that was never realized. From 1925, it served as the seat of the Württemberg State President, starting with Wilhelm Bazille.