Catalog
10 Heller Hirschbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hirschbach (Municipality of Hirschbach) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a finely detailed woodcut-style vignette of the Hirschbach village church set amid flowering shrubs and a forested hillside backdrop, framed by an arched border of stylised wheat ears and floral scrollwork. Two circular denomination cartouches, each inscribed "10 Heller", are positioned at the lower left and lower right corners, integrated into an Art Nouveau-influenced scrollwork frame. The overall composition is printed in brown monochrome, with no additional lettering beyond the denomination panels. |
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| Signature(s) | Anton Gusner (Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter), M. Freudenthaler (Bürgermeister) and L. Eidenberger (Gemeinde-Ausschuss) |
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Hirschbach is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian and German communities during the First World War when small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight. Stampfl & Comp. in Braunau am Inn — the same town where Adolf Hitler was born, though that connection carries no relevance here — handled printing for numerous local Notgeld issues across the region, making them a minor but reliable provincial press of the period.
Three signatories authenticated this note: the Bürgermeister, his deputy, and a council member. That level of local bureaucratic formality on a 10 Heller emergency piece speaks to how seriously even tiny municipalities treated the legal standing of their improvised currency.