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20 Heller Hinterbrühl
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hinterbrühl (Municipality of Hinterbrühl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative floral border. A central oval vignette presents a line-engraved view of the Römerwand (Roman Wall) ruins set among trees, with the caption 'RÖMERWAND' above. The heading 'Kassenschein der Gemeinde Hinterbrühl bei Wien' and the denomination 'Zwanzig Heller' appear in Gothic script, flanked by the numeral '20' in corner cartouches; three facsimile signatures appear below the vignette, with 'BÜRGERMEISTER' indicated beneath. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Gemeinde Hinterbrühl bei Wien über Zwanzig Heller RÖMERWAND 20 Zwanzig Heller VIZE-BÜRGERMEISTER FINANZ-REFERENT BÜRGERMEISTER |
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Hinterbrühl is a small village south of Vienna, best known for being the site of the underground Heinkel aircraft factory built inside the Seegrotte caves using concentration camp labor — but this note predates all of that by two decades. Austrian municipal notgeld of this type was issued in response to the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War, with hundreds of small communities printing their own fractional notes between 1919 and 1921.
The official stamp serves as the sole security measure — entirely typical for village-level issues, where the local seal and the inherent obscurity of the issuer were considered deterrent enough against forgery.