Vienna Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Viennese cafés === [[Image:Hietzing (Wien) - Café Dommayer.JPG|thumb|The Café Dommayer]]The [[Viennese coffee house]] (''Kaffeehaus'') dates back to the Austro-Hungarian empire. The Vienna [[intelligentsia]] treated Viennese cafés like a living room.<ref>{{cite book | author1=Rick Rodgers |title=Kaffeehaus |publisher= Echo Point Books |year=2020 |page= |isbn=9781635619683 }}</ref> The first Viennese café was opened in 1685 by Armenian businessman Johannes Diodato. Café culture flourished in Vienna in the early 19th century.<ref>{{cite book | author1=Alysa Levene |title=Cake: A Slice of History |publisher=Headline |year=2016 |page= |isbn=9781472226839 }}</ref> Notable patrons included political figures [[Joseph Stalin]], [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Leon Trotsky]] and [[Josip Broz Tito]], who all lived in Vienna in 1913, as well as scientists, writers and artists such as [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Stefan Zweig]], [[Egon Schiele]] and [[Gustav Klimt]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 March 2013 |title=1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21859771 |access-date=24 March 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> Notable coffee houses include: * [[Café Central]]: frequented by Hitler, Stalin, Tito, Trotsky and Zweig * [[Café Landtmann]]: frequented by Freud * Café Sacher: part of the [[Hotel Sacher]] Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page