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30 Heller Feldkirchen an der Donau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Feldkirchen an der Donau (Municipality of Feldkirchen an der Donau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Dreißig Heller Die Gemeinde Feldkirchen a.d. haftet für die Einlösung dieses Notgeldes durch eine eigene Deckungsrücklage Bürgermeister: Vizebürgermstr: |
| Reverse description | Printed in the same red-brown tone on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by a detailed vignette of the Landesgut Bergheim, a neoclassical manor house set amid trees and ornamental gardens. Below the vignette, a curved banner carries the issuer text in Gothic script, followed by the redemption and withdrawal clauses. Manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister appear at the lower left and right respectively. |
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Feldkirchen an der Donau is a small Upper Austrian municipality north of Linz, and this 30 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld pieces issued by Austrian communes between 1919 and 1922 to address the catastrophic small-change shortage left by the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The central government simply could not produce enough low-denomination coinage fast enough, so local authorities filled the gap themselves.
The JPR reference places this within the Jaksch cataloguing of Austrian municipal emergency issues — a series that ran into the tens of thousands of individual types across the country.