Coffee-Saxons

I like my coffee: everytime
so I wrote in my profile.

„The Golden Coffee Service“ from the treasury Grünes Gewölbe
(in German, but with some more pictures click HERE)

Yes indeed, the Folk of Saxony here is known as „Kaffeesachsen“ (Coffeesaxons). On the trade show in Leipzig in 1670 (!) there was the first coffee bean exposition. In this town in 1694 opened the first Café, later another Café became well-known by its famous visitor, the composer Robert Schumann. In 1732 J.S. Bach composed the „Coffee-cantate“.

Dresden, about 1900

The name „Kaffeesachse“ we got from the king of Prussia, Frederick 2nd, so it’s told.
In Saxony by the king „August the Strong“ himself it was boost a coffee-culture in gentry and middle classes so in the beginning 18th century everywhere in Saxony growed coffee-houses and there was a great consumption of this drink.
During the Seven-Year-Old War between Saxony and Prussia the moral of the troops of Saxony was very low (Saxony is a country of reforms, not of revoltes, you may compare the lifestyle with mediterran countries today) and they grumbled „Without coffee we cannot fight!“ – so the Prussian king scoffed at the „Coffeesaxons“…
To Saxony also belongs all the equipment of coffee-culture, please think in the Meissen (Dresden) porcelain, invented in 1710! In 1908 a Dresden woman invented the filter paper – Melitta Bentz she was. And still today, especially for older people – but not only! – it’s holy to meet in the afternoon in a Café and have some cake with pure coffee.

Drink? – Yes, we can!
Coffee? – Yes, a can!

Ingolf the coffee-gutter