This, then, is the story of how coffee was introduced into Vienna, where was developed that typical Vienna cafe which has become a model for a large part of the world. Kolschitzky is honored in Vienna as the patron saint of coffee houses. His followers, united in the guild of coffee makers (_kaffee-sieder_), even erected a statue in his honor. It still stands as part of the facade of a house where the Kolschitzygasse merges into the Favoritengasse, as shown in the accompanying picture. Vienna is sometimes referred to as the "mother of cafes". Cafe Sacher is world-renowned. Tart a la Sacher is to be found in every cook-book. The Viennese have their "_jause_" every afternoon. When one drinks coffee at a Vienna cafe one generally has a _kipfel_ with it. This is a crescent-shaped roll--baked for the first time in the eventful year 1683, when the Turks besieged the city. A baker made these crescent rolls in a spirit of defiance of the Turk. Holding sword in one hand and _kipfel_ in the other, the Viennese would show themselves on top of their redoubts and challenge the cohorts of Mohammed IV. Mohammed IV was deposed after losing the battle, and Kara Mustapha was executed for leaving the stores--particularly the sacks of coffee beans--at the gates of Vienna; but Vienna coffee and Vienna _kipfel_ are still alive, and their appeal is not lessened by the years. [Illustration: THE FIRST COFFEE HOUSE IN THE LEOPOLDSTADT From a cut so titled in Bermann's _Alt und Neu Wien_] The hero Kolschitzky was presented with a house by the grateful municipality; and there, at the sign of the Blue Bottle, according to one account, he continued as a coffee-house keeper for many years.[65] This, in brief, is the story that--although not authenticated in all its particulars--is seriously related in many books, and is firmly believed throughout Vienna. It seems a pity to discredit the hero of so romantic an adventure; but the archives of Vienna throw a light upon Kolschitzky's later conduct that tends to show that, after all, this Viennese idol's feet were of common clay. It is said that Kolschitzky, after receiving the sacks of green coffee left behind by the Turks, at once began to peddle the beverage from house to house, serving it in little cups from a wooden platter. Later he rented a shop in Bischof-hof. Then he began to petition the municipal council, that, in addition to the sum of 100 ducats already promised him as further recognition of his valor, he should receive a house with good will attached; that is, a shop in some growing business section. "His petitions to the municipal council", writes M. Bermann[66], "are amazing examples of measureless self-conceit and the boldest greed. He seemed determined to get the utmost out of his own self-sacrifice. He insisted upon the most highly deserved reward, such as the Romans bestowed upon their Curtius, the Lacedaemonians upon their Pompilius, the Athenians upon Seneca, with whom he modestly compared himself."