Even though he had made a name for himself in the 1930s with his Berlin single-family homes, Eiermann later on found it difficult to accept commissions for this building type when, during the period of the "economic miracle", he was approached by numerous people interested to get a design by him. Only the Hardenberg House in Baden-Baden satisfied him, but above all his own house, which he also built in Baden-Baden in 1959–62. This house in particular, built after his success with the German Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair and at the same time as the Berlin Gedächtniskirche and the German Embassy in Washington, was to become one of the main works of his post-war creative output.
Eiermann himself tried to explain the house, which only crystallized in a longer planning genesis, primarily from the functional side: main house and annexe, the latter for garage, studio and guest apartment, the elongated main house in bulkhead construction under a flat sloping roof. In fact, the house is convincing in its sophisticated functionality.
Since 2020, the house has new owners, on whose behalf the Stuttgart architects "no where" (Henning Volpp and Karl Amann) have undertaken an extremely careful renovation.