Austria Guide: Culture
If you really want to make a new life in a country, you need to understand the people who live there. Our guide will give you useful and interesting information about culture and history, people, traditions, customs and more.
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The Austrian Kaffeehaus Culture
Austrian coffee tradition
According to folklore, soldiers of the Polish-Habsburg army, while liberating Vienna from a Turkish invasion in 1683, found many sacks with beans that they believed contained camel feed and wanted to burn. Luckily, that was not to be and Polish king Jan III Sobieski granted the sacks to one of his officers, Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki. After some trial and error, he finally learned how to roast and prepare the coffee. The Austrian coffee tradition was born when he opened the country's first Kaffeehaus.
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