spute, the municipal council in 1685
directed that there should be deeded over to Kolschitzky and his wife,
Maria Ursula, without further argument, the house known at that time as
30 (now 8) Haidgasse.

It is further recorded that Kolschitzky sold the house within a year;
and, after many moves, he died of tuberculosis, February 20, 1694, aged
fifty-four years. He was courier to the emperor at the time of his
death, and was buried in the Stefansfreithof Cemetery.

[Illustration: STATUE OF KOLSCHITZKY ERECTED BY THE COFFEE MAKERS GUILD
OF VIENNA]

Kolschitzky's heirs moved the coffee house to Donaustrand, near the
wooden Schlagbruecke, later known as Ferdinand's _bruecke_ (bridge). The
celebrated coffee house of Franz Mosee (d. 1860) stood on this same
spot.

In the city records for the year 1700 a house in the
Stock-im-Eisen-Platz (square) is designated by the words "_allwo das
erste kaffeegewoelbe_" ("here was the first coffee house").
Unfortunately, the name of the proprietor is not given.

Many stories are told of Kolschitzky's popularity as a coffee-house
keeper. He is said to have addressed everyone as _bruderherz_
(brother-heart) and gradually he himself acquired the name _bruderherz_.
A portrait of Kolschitzky, painted about the time of his greatest vogue,
is carefully preserved by the Innung der Wiener Kaffee-sieder (the
Coffee Makers' Guild of Vienna).

Even during the lifetime of the first _kaffee-sieder_, a number of
others opened coffee houses and acquired some little fame. Early in the
eighteenth century a tourist gives us a glimpse of the progress made by
coffee drinking and by the coffee-house idea in Vienna. We read:

The city of Vienna is filled with coffee houses, where the
novelists or those who busy themselves with the newspapers delight
to meet, to read the gazettes and discuss their contents. Some of
these houses have a better reputation than others because such
_zeitungs-doctors_ (newspaper doctors--an ironical title) gather
there to pass most unhesitating judgment on the weightiest events,
and to surpass all others in their opinions concerning political
matters and considerations.

All this wins them such respect that many congregate there because
of them, and to enrich their minds with inventions and foolishness
which they immediately run through the city to bring to the ears of
the said personalities. It is impossible to belie