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20 Heller Kremsmünster
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Kremsmünster (Market Town of Kremsmünster) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Pale green notgeld voucher with an ornate letterpress border of guilloche scrollwork and stylised floral corner ornaments. A central dark rectangular cartouche in Gothic script bears the denomination 'Zwanzig Heller', flanked on each side by oval panels carrying the numeral '20'. Below the cartouche, a small circular vignette depicts a heraldic animal, accompanied by the issuing authority's guarantee text at left and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature at right. |
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| Reverse description | Pale green note with a matching guilloche and floral border. The left half carries a fine letterpress vignette of the local theater building set among trees, captioned 'Theater'. To the right, the denomination '20' appears twice flanking the issuing authority heading 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Kremsmünster', with the validity period 'Gültigkeitsdauer bis 31 Dezemb 1920' and the denomination text 'Zwanzig Heller' in Gothic script. Below, a two-stanza dialect poem titled 'Kremsmünsterer Schnadahüpfl' is printed in full. |
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Kremsmünster's 20 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld issued from 1919 onward, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities responsible for their own small-denomination liquidity. The Market Town issued these through local administrative authority rather than any banking institution — a telling sign of how thoroughly central financial infrastructure had disintegrated in postwar Upper Austria.
Emil Prietzel in Steyr handled printing for numerous regional municipalities during this period, making his output prolific but rarely documented in detail. The JPR suffix in the Jaksc reference indicates a sub-variant classification, suggesting this specific note differs in some measurable way — paper stock, overprint, or serial placement — from sibling issues in the series.