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20 Heller Furth bei Göttweig, Grey green issue
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Furth bei Göttweig (Market Town of Furth bei Göttweig) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | Otto Stoitzner |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a finely detailed line-drawn landscape panorama of Furth bei Göttweig, with Göttweig Abbey perched prominently on the hilltop and the market town spread across the valley below, flanked by trees and rolling terrain. The denomination numeral '20' appears in bold blackletter type within plain ruled frames at the left and right margins, with ornamental cross-hatched corner devices at each corner. The issuing authority legend runs across the top in Gothic script, liability text fills the left column, and anti-counterfeiting warning text occupies the right column; the date 'Furth, 20. Mai 1920' and three manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear along the lower portion, with small vignettes of a church portal at the lower left and right corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | Entwurf: Otto Stoitzner. Druck: Josef Faber, Krems. Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde Furth über 20 Heller. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Furth unverzinsliche Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 50.000 Kronen aus. Sie werden von der Gemeinde Furth bis 30. September 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 16. bis 30. Septbr. 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. |
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Furth bei Göttweig is a small market town in Lower Austria best known for its proximity to Göttweig Abbey, and like hundreds of other Austrian municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The grey-green printing distinguishes this from the earlier issues in the same denomination — colour variants within a single municipality's Notgeld run were common, often driven by whatever paper stock the local printer had available rather than any official policy.
Josef Faber of Krems was a regional printer handling multiple Lower Austrian municipal commissions in this period. Otto Stoitzner, who designed this note, came from a prominent Viennese artistic family — his father Josef Stoitzner was a well-regarded landscape painter — and Otto himself worked across applied and decorative arts before the economic chaos of the early 1920s apparently brought him into Notgeld design work.