Café Wien, Café in a 1583 timber-framed house on Breite Straße, Wernigerode, Germany

Café Wien is a timber-framed structure with exposed wooden beams and vertical posts characteristic of medieval German construction methods, rising across two floors. The building contains interior seating areas and outdoor tables, serving a traditional menu that includes vegetarian choices.

Built in 1583, the house survived the great town fire of 1751, which destroyed 190 buildings. From the late 18th century it housed small businesses, including the brewer Saatze and the tinsmith family Brauckhoff. In 1897 the baker and confectioner Wilhelm Hauer took it over and opened a café, continued by his son Hermann; from 1 April 1926 Hans Siegemund ran it, and in 1951 it passed to the state-run HO, which renamed it Café Wien. Since 1 July 1990 it has belonged to Marga Siegemund.

The name Café Wien dates from the 1950s, when the state-run HO renamed the former Café Hauer after Austria's capital; the old sign read "HO Kaffee Wien HO". The writer Hermann Löns visited in 1905 and published "Die bunte Stadt am Harz" two years later, a phrase Wernigerode still uses. Sculptor Ernst Barlach celebrated his 68th birthday here in January 1938.

The café sits near Wernigerode Castle and is easily reachable on foot from the town center. Both indoor and outdoor seating are available, and visitors can stop by without advance planning.

The three-windowed gable storey was added around 1610 and has stayed free of structural change since. The facade keeps its Renaissance carvings, including palmette motifs and ship keels, plus coats of arms at the base of the corbels. In 1906 the year 1583 was recut on the upper storey's sill beam during a facade renovation.