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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.*

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.

My Vienna: 40+ food spots from A to Z

Above: Mayer am Pfarrplatz, 26 May 2022 (X70).

Whatever your choice or preference, there’s no shortage of places for a sip and nosh in the city of Vienna. Over stays spanning a total of 100-plus days across 3 consecutive summers, the Austrian capital city provides plenty of opportunities to try something new.

I stayed in Vienna’s 2nd district in 2023, and in the 6th district in 2022, 2024, & 2025. I describe below food visits throughout the city, for all the tasty bits including Turkish Döner, falafel, finger sandwiches, Georgian breakfast, horsemeat rolls, ice cream, Nepali curry, pastries, raspberry torte, roast pork, Shakshuka for breakfast, Viennese veal schnitzel, and shwarma Syrian-style.