Villa Bosch
Villa Bosch is a former grand residence in Heidelberg, built in the early 1920s for chemist Carl Bosch. The estate includes the main house and several outbuildings. BASF commissioned the residence for its chairman, who later received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
After the Second World War, American military officers used the house as accommodation, and Dwight D. Eisenhower stayed there briefly. A Heidelberg company later occupied it. In the late 1960s, Süddeutscher Rundfunk established its Heidelberg-Mannheim studio here, continuing until the mid-1990s. After restoration, modern infrastructure joined the historical appearance, and the Klaus Tschira Foundation has used the building since 1997.
The former studio building now functions as an accessible conference centre. About 300 metres west, Carl Bosch’s former garage houses the Carl Bosch Museum Heidelberg. Exhibits cover chemical research, laboratories, beetles, butterflies and astronomy. The protected complex connects industrial science, American occupation, broadcasting and foundation work within Heidelberg’s architectural landscape.
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