Café
Café Sperl
Gumpendorfer Str. 11, 1060 Wien
Art Nouveau coffeehouse with billiard tables, marble surfaces and crystal chandeliers, unchanged for over a century.
Cafe Sperl in Vienna follows the Siebenerclub, a circle of young rebel architects including Josef Hoffmann and Josef Maria Olbrich, who gathered over billiards here through the 1890s. The guide traces how their arguments at these tables led to founding the Vienna Secession in 1897. It also covers the cafe's own history, opened in 1880 by cycling impresario Jakob Ronacher before passing to the Sperl family, and the composers who later took coffee here.
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