Bauhütte Heidelberg Baugenossenschaft eG is a housing cooperative based in Heidelberg, Germany. Registered in 1949, it was established to provide affordable housing and continues to build, maintain and modernise homes for its members in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region.23
The cooperative’s main activity is managing residential properties and providing member households with housing at what it describes as fair, market-based prices. Its website reports a portfolio of 1,561 homes and 1,829 members in 2025, alongside 988 garages or parking spaces and 13 commercial units.3 Its properties serve Heidelberg and eight other towns and municipalities in the surrounding area.1
The organisation also provides student housing. It operates five student residences in Mannheim, Eppelheim and Dossenheim, with about 190 apartments in total.1 In addition to managing existing homes, it has undertaken new construction: the cooperative’s history records more than 200 apartments delivered through building projects since 2010.3
Its stated mission is to provide good, secure and socially responsible housing. The cooperative identifies solidarity, sustainability, fairness and community as guiding principles, and its work has included energy-related modernisation and a focus on accessible and inclusive housing.3 The current board members listed by the cooperative are Christian Grau and Marcus Schmitt.34