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24T39 Two Vienna traditions: Trześniewski & Trams, Brötchen & Bims

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If something has carried on for over one hundred years, surely that’s long enough to count as “tradition.” I can live with that here in Vienna.

Saturday saw the heat return to the capital city with a balmy high of +28C (82F), likely touching low-30s in the Danube valley plains. Hanging out in the 3rd district (Landstrasse) brought me to some munchies at Rochusmarkt and some beautiful old streetcars at a transport museum.

Trześniewski

Since 1902, this Vienna-only chain offers simple delicious open-faced sandwiches. Their “Brötchen” consist of fresh rye bread cut to small rectangular slabs on which thick savory spreads are applied. (“Tschress-nee-ev-ski” is my best attempt.)

It’s 125pm and cozy inside their space at Rochusmarkt.
Rich creamy savory spreads on solid rye; very tempting to buy individual spreads in 100gram-jars for the apartment.

Remise (depot) transport museum

In a former rail maintenance yard, the city’s public transport operator, Wiener Linien, has their own history museum describing how Vienna went from horse-drawn trams in the 1840s to the U- and S-Bahn trains within the metro region today. There’s the visual bonus of many old pretty red trams, a.k.a. streetcars, a.k.a. “Bims”.

Lounge- or trailer-car, no.1504 (1871).
“Rund um Wien” (Around Vienna), no.82 (1912).
With the introduction in 1962 of rapid transit or Schnellbahn, this 1965 logo with the white jagged rune-like ‘S’ on a blue background became a standard sight around Vienna.
“Silberpfeil” (silver arrow), no.2022, 1976 with the introduction of the first U-Bahn line, the U1, in Vienna.
Tracks out from the sheds.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 15 Jun 2024. I received neither sponsor nor support from any external organization. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.