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25 Heller Schlägl
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schlägl (Municipality of Schlägl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Hellers (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | HELLER GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE SCHLÄGL DER EINLÖSUNGS-TERMIN WIRD VIER WOCHEN FRÜHER BEKANNTGEGEBEN. DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES SCHEINES IST GESETZLICH VERBOTEN. DER BÜRGERMEISTER LEOPOLD WÖSS |
| Reverse description | Blue letterpress reverse with the denomination numeral '25' repeated in Art Nouveau scroll panels at left and right, enclosing a central architectural vignette of the ornate Baroque gateway of Schlägl Abbey (Stift Schlägl), rendered in fine line work with statuary figures visible on the gate structure. Geometric and cross-pattern decorative borders frame the lower corners, and a small artist's signature appears at the lower centre of the vignette. |
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Schlägl is a small village in Upper Austria best known for its Premonstratensian monastery, the Stift Schlägl, which has operated continuously since the 13th century. The 1920 Heller notes from this municipality belong to the broader Notgeld phenomenon that swept rural Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg economy — local administrations printing their own fractional emergency notes because small-denomination coinage had simply vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted down during and after the First World War.
Leopold Wöss signed as the authorizing official. At 25 Heller, this was the smallest practical unit of exchange for daily transactions in a village economy.