coffee housesCoffee and Leipzig are inseparable. In the Saxon city of the first coffee house musicians entertained the guests in Germany: Georg Philipp Telemann Musicum played music in the cafes on the square with the college, founded in 1701. Johann Sebastian Bach visited over two decades, twice a week, the Zimmermannsche cafe in St. Catherine Street. Its Coffee Cantata is a highlight of Saxon cafe music of the 18 Century. The text was written to the Leipzig writer Christian Friedrich Henrici (Pseudonym Picander) 1732.

While elsewhere cannonballs were cast, won Leipzig in the first half of the 18th Century reputation as the largest production site of coffee grinders. After 1693, the first shipment of coffee arrived in Leipzig, always opened new coffee houses. Consequently, there is the cafĂ©-restaurant “The Arabian Coffee Tree”, the oldest continuously operating coffeehouse in Leipzig, Germany.

Anyone interested in addition to coffee tradition of Leipzig, Leipzig, and for specialties, will find in the current “closer” output, which is available free of charge in the Leipzig Information.

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