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Speaking of the German festival, we will never miss the grand Munich Oktoberfest, while the German "coffee festival" is little known. On September 29th, 2006, the German Coffee Association in Hamburg initiated and established the "Coffee Festival" (Tag des Kaffees) and organized a design competition to select the Logo of the Coffee Festival. Teresa Habild, a 26-year-old female college student, won the championship for her simple and elegant design. On the day of the Coffee Festival, rich and colorful activities are held all over the country. For example, the theme of the 2010 Coffee Festival is "Coffee-carefree enjoyment". On this day, coffee merchants displayed their products in Bremen Square, Lubeck held a coffee exhibition, and graffiti of the whole coffee production process were painted on the 300m-long outer wall of R ö stfein in Maderburg.

Coffee also went through a long process before it gradually entered Europe, and coffee became more and more popular in southern and central Europe in the 16th century. The first cafe, bottega del caff è, was born in Venice in 1645. In Venice's Piazza San Marco, the Florian Cafe, which opened in 1720, is still open today. Like other cafes, Florian was then a gathering place for artists and literati, and now it attracts many tourists from all over the world. The first cafes were born in Oxford in 1650 and in London in 1652. Then the first cafes in Marseilles and Paris opened. The first coffee shop in Germany was born in Bremen in 1673, Hamburg in 1677, Regensburg (Bavaria) in 1686, Leipzig in 1694 and Berlin in 1721. The coffee shop appeared in Vienna in 1683, and its development history can best reflect the coffee history of Europe. There were 150 cafes in Vienna in 1819. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the number soared to 600. But Viennese enthusiasm for coffee began to decline in the second half of the 1920s. With the change of consumption habits and the impact of the Espresso bar, many cafes have closed down one after another. On the streets of Vienna today, traditional cafes are still everywhere and are as popular as the Espresso Coffee Bar.

Of course, the coffee culture of different countries has its own characteristics, which is mainly reflected in the way coffee is brewed. Germany's coffee culture bears the brunt of Merita Bentz (Melitta Bentz). She invented the coffee bubble method more than 100 years ago and wrote the history of coffee in Germany.