It was Jerzy Kulczycki who is thought to have opened the first coffee house in Vienna following the Ottoman siege there in 1683.
Not only did Jerzy Kulczycki open Vienna’s first café he also helped save the city from the besieging Turks.
Fearing that the monument of King Jan III Sobieski leading hussars into battle during the Siege of Vienna may be perceived as anti-Turkish, Vienna mayor Michael Ludwig said that it was not an appropriate time to erect military monuments – despite a long-term plan to have it on the capital’s Kahlenberg hill.
The stunning discovery was made in the residential neighbourhood of Żoliborz in northern Warsaw where the 300-year-old church was built as a summer residence for Queen Marie Casimire.
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