Kaffee Alt Wien is a traditional Viennese café located at Bäckerstraße 9 in the

Innere Stadt The Innere Stadt (; Central Bavarian: ''Innare Stod'') is the 1st municipal Districts of Vienna, district of Vienna () located in the center of the Austrian capital. The Innere Stadt is the old town of Vienna. Until the city boundaries were expa ...

first district in

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, Austria. It was established on 14 October 1922 and taken over in 1936 by

Leopold Hawelka Leopold Hawelka (April 11, 1911 – December 29, 2011) was an Austrian coffee house owner. He and his wife, , founded and operated Café Hawelka (''"Künstlerkaffeehaus Hawelka"''). Life and career Hawelka was born in Staatz-Kautendorf. His pa ...

and his wife Josefine on the day after their wedding. They ran the café until 1939 at which time they moved to Dorotheergasse, where they opened a new coffee house,

Café Hawelka Café Hawelka () is a traditional Viennese café located at Dorotheergasse 6 in the Innere Stadt, the first district of Vienna, Austria. History The Café Hawelka was opened by Leopold Hawelka in 1939. Hawelka had previously operated the Kaff ...

. Since the 1980s, the Kaffee Alt Wien has developed into a night café with a relaxed atmosphere. Informally considered an artistic hub, in 1976, a notable

happening A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow during the 1950s to describe a range of art-related events. History Origins Allan Kaprow first coined the term "happen ...

by the Viennese artist Gottfried Helnwein took place in the café. The walls of the cafe are largely covered by posters advertising music, theatre and arts events in Vienna and the surrounding areas.

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* The information in this article is based on a translation of its German equivalent. {{austria-struct-stub Coffeehouses and cafés in Vienna Buildings and structures in Innere Stadt

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