The Heurige was born

The holy Severin (geb.482) lived in Heiligenstadt (19th district) at the vineyards, possibly this is where this 19th district (Heiligenstadt = Holy town) got it's name from. Karl the Great obviously liked drinking wine and remitted numerous ordinances regarding the wine-growing.

Worth mentioning is the 'Capitulare de villis' in the year 795, which contained exact orders to the wine-growing and the wine bars, the so-called Reifwirtschaften.

The Awares were beaten Karl the Great, after a short peaceful time in the year 881 the Magyars came.

In this time the winegrowers in Vienna started to bar their wine, the so-called Heurige, a wine bar, was born. The post-roman colonization of Vienna was beside the military camp Vindobona and was called Berghof. A administration system (Bergrecht) for vineyards was established.

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