Karl Josef Bayer, ki je dal vilo zgraditi je tu umrl leta 1904. Iznašel je postopek pridobivanja glinice iz boksita, ki se po njem imenuje Bayerjev postopek. To odkritje je patentiral leta 1887 in je še danes edini uporabljeni postopek za pridobivanje glinice iz boksita.
The house was built by Carl Josef Bayer, who died in the villa in 1904. Bayer was the first to discover the process of extracting alumina from boxite, today known as the Bayer process. He patented the process in 1887. It is still the only process used for extracting alumina from boxite.