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1 Krone Steinklamm Internment Camp
| Issuer | K.K. Internierungsstation Steinklamm |
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| Year | 1915-1918 |
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| Value | 1 Crown (1 Krone) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on yellow paper stock, with the issuer's title set within a bold-bordered panel at the top, flanked at each corner by a large numeral '1' and enclosed within a chain-link and foliate decorative frame. A central circular vignette carries the numeral '1' above the legend 'KRONE' within a dotted ring, flanked by stylised foliate ornaments and embedded in the body of the German-language redemption text. A lower rectangular panel contains the conditions of redemption in small type, with the word 'LAGERGELD' in a solid black banner at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 K.K.INTERNIERUNGSSTATION STEINKLAMM NO. Gegen diesen Schein zahlt die Kassa der k. k. Internierungsstation Steinklamm, N.-Ö. - solange diese Internierungsstation besteht - dem Überbringer, u. zw. den zum Betreten d. Internierungsstation berech-tigten Gewerbetreibenden, sowie den Internierten bei ihrem Abgange aus der Internierungsstation eine Krone 1 KRONE in Barem aus. Stark beschmutzte u. hiedurch unleserlich gewordene Scheine, sowie solche, die Radierungen, Kurrekturen, andere Änderungen oder Schriftzeichen auf-weisen, sowie Scheine, denen ein Stück fehlt, werden nicht eingelöst. LAGERGELD (Translation: Imperial and Royal Internment Station Steinklamm, Lower Austria. Against this voucher, the cashier of the Imperial and Royal Internment Station Steinklamm, Lower Austria, will pay the bearer, specifically businesspeople authorized to enter the internment station, as well as internees upon their departure from the internment station, one crown in cash. Heavily soiled and thus illegible vouchers, as well as those bearing etchings, corrections, other alterations, or writing, and vouchers missing a piece, will not be accepted. Camp money.) |
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Steinklamm was one of dozens of internment facilities the Austro-Hungarian imperial administration established during the First World War to hold civilians — primarily Italians, Slovenes, and other subjects deemed politically unreliable as the empire fought on multiple fronts simultaneously. Camp scrip of this type was a practical necessity: inmates could not be permitted access to imperial currency that might fund escape or be passed to outside contacts, so individual stations issued their own denominated paper for use within the wire.
The Campoformido-era Lagergelder remain better documented than those of smaller stations like Steinklamm, and surviving examples from this facility are correspondingly scarce in the specialist literature.