From the Prater you can go to Westbahnhof with the tram number five and just do a small „Viennese world“ trip. After a while you will get in a state of trance because there are so many details to be seen and the tram track has many bends in the district Josefstadt. Then you reach the seventh district and the tram stops at Kaiserstraße/Neustiftgasse (photo). You look out of the window, a bit exhausted, and there it is – the cradle of the famous Frankfurter/Viennese sausages.
A plaque in adequate brown colours tells you that „here the butcher family Lahner produced from 1832 to 1967 the sausages known only in Vienna as Frankfurter sausages but in the whole world as Viennese sausages“. Johann Read the rest of this entry »
