Catalog
10 Heller Laxenburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Laxenburg (Municipality of Laxenburg, Lower Austria) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-black on pink paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of Laxenburg Castle rendered in fine line engraving, set against a landscape background. Circular guilloche rosettes bearing the denomination numeral '10' anchor the upper left and right corners, with smaller ornamental rosettes below each. The lower portion of the note bears three manuscript facsimile signatures above the printed titles of Kämmerer, Bürgermeister, and Vizebürgermeister, with the issuing authority text arranged in panels to either side. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 HELLER Kassenschein der Gemeinde Laxenburg N.Oe. KÄMMERER: BÜRGERMEISTER: VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER Gültig bis 31. Juli 1920. DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES KASSENSCHEINES WIRD BESTRAFT. DIE GEMEINDE LAXENBURG N.OE. HAFTET FÜR DIESE VERBINDLICHKEIT MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEGLICHEN VERMÖGEN. |
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Laxenburg was primarily known as an imperial summer residence — the Habsburgs maintained a significant complex there — which makes its wartime Heller notgeld an odd footnote. These municipal emergency issues emerged across Austria from around 1916 onward as small-denomination coins vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted. The printer Erwin Bruek & Seitenberg was a Vienna commercial house responsible for a number of Lower Austrian municipal issues during this period, working from standardized layouts adapted to each community's requirements.
The JPR0507b designation indicates this is a catalogued variant within the Laxenburg series — multiple denominations and printings were produced by several Austrian municipalities, and minor differences in typography or paper stock are what separate "a" from "b" listings.