The oldest Viennese cafés

In 1685 the Armenian merchant Johannes Deodat was the first to be granted the privilege of publicly serving coffee in Vienna. He opened the first café in the Hachenbergisch Haus on the Haarmarkt. With a delay as compared with other European cities, a coffee culture thus began to develop also in Vienna, which around 1800, experienced its first peak. Numerous depictions in the Wien Museum’s collection tell of the boom of new cafés in these decades and of popular, long gone cafés, such as the one in “Paradeisgartel” or on the Prater Hauptallee.