Kaffekanna

The first coffee came to Sweden in 1685. Initially, the coffee was sold only in pharmacies in Sweden, when it was considered to relieve and cure diseases. The coffee breakthrough in Sweden took off seriously in the early 1700s when the then Swedish King Karl XII introduced the coffee. He had raised his eyes for it during his time in Turkey. In the first half of the 17th century, Stockholm had fifty coffee houses. A ban on coffee drinking was introduced at the Parliament in 1756, and a fine was imposed on anyone with coffee drinking. It was the peasantry that enforced the ban, in retaliation against the banning of the burning of burns. But in 1769 the ban was lifted and replaced with an import duty. New coffee bans applied to 17941796, 17991802 and 18171823.