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30 Heller St. Georgen am Walde
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Georgen am Walde (Municipality of Sankt Georgen am Walde) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 108 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a panoramic view of Sankt Georgen am Walde, with the village church steeple rising prominently above a cluster of rural buildings set against a mountain backdrop, a figure on a road in the foreground; the artist's signature 'Rud. Reiser' appears at lower left of the vignette. The denomination '30' is printed in bold numerals within decorative cartouches at the upper left and upper right corners, with the title 'GUTSCHEIN ST. GEORGEN AM WALD' in a bordered panel at top centre. A decorative stone-pattern underprint fills the lower border area, with the printer's imprint 'DRUCK HIEBL, GREIN' at lower right; validity text and official signatures occupy a vertical panel at the right margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Jos. Fürnhammer (Bürgermeister), Fl. Palmetzhofer and Franz Temper (Vizebürgermeister) |
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Sankt Georgen am Walde is a small Upper Austrian market commune that, like hundreds of similar communities, issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 30 Heller denomination sits in the mid-range of such issues, where local governments were essentially printing their own change. Druckerei Hiebl in nearby Grein was a regional press that handled several such commissions across the area, keeping production local and costs minimal.
Three signatories authenticate the note: the Bürgermeister and two Vizebürgermeister, which was the full weight of the municipal executive for a village of this scale. Rudolf Reiser's designer credit is the one detail that elevates this above a purely administrative artefact.