1 Krone Landegg Refugee Camp

Landegg, in Lower Austria, was established as a large internment and refugee camp during the First World War, primarily housing Galician and Bukovinian civilians displaced by the Eastern Front fighting of 1914–15. The K.K. Barackenverwaltung — the imperial-royal barracks administration — issued its own internal scrip because inmates had no legitimate reason to hold Austrian crown currency, and camp authorities needed to control purchasing within the canteen economy. These notes are camp money in the strictest sense: not legal tender, not redeemable outside the wire.

The yellow paper distinguishes the 1 Krone denomination within the series — different values were printed on different colored stock to reduce confusion among a largely illiterate population.