The Vienna sausage stand is a place where the street sweeper, the manager, the tourist and the celebrity converge for the same tasty snack.

The Austrian UNESCO Commission announced this week that the Würstelstand has been added to the national list of intangible cultural heritage, joining the city’s beloved wine taverns (“Heurigen”) and its famous coffee house culture,

The Vienna sausage stand is where the street sweeper, the manager, the tourist, and the celebrity converge for the same tasty snack. Now it also has the official stamp of approval as part of Austria's heritage.

The humble Vienna “Würstelstand,” or sausage stand, is the latest addition to the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage overseen by the Austrian UNESCO Commission.