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10 Heller Oberhollabrunn Refugee Camp
| Issuer | K.K. Flüchtlingsstation Oberhollabrunn |
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| Year | 1915-1918 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on green paper, the obverse is enclosed within a decorative rectangular border with ornamental corner pieces. The heading reads K.K. FLÜCHTLINGSSTATION OBERHOLLABRUNN, N.-Ö. in bold capitals across the top, flanked by the numeral 10 on each side. A central black oval medallion carries the denomination 10 HELLER in white lettering, framed by small floral ornaments, with the text zehn Heller in Barem aus. extending to either side; the lower register contains a redemption disclaimer in small Gothic text, and the panel at the base bears the inscription LAGERGELD within a framed cartouche. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed on the same green paper stock with a faint rectangular frame visible near the edges; the field is otherwise entirely unprinted, leaving the paper surface plain. |
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Oberhollabrunn, a small Lower Austrian town north of Vienna, housed one of the Habsburg Empire's wartime refugee camps established to manage the massive displacement of civilians — largely Poles, Ruthenians, and Ukrainians — fleeing the Eastern Front after the Russian advance into Galicia in 1914 and 1915. Camp scrip like this 10 Heller note was a practical necessity: inmates were prohibited from holding regular currency, so the K.K. Flüchtlingsstation issued its own internal tender to control purchasing within the compound.
The Campbell reference 1596 places this among a recognized but thinly documented category of Austrian internment and refugee camp issues, most of which were printed in extremely small quantities and redeemed or destroyed when the camps closed.