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5 Heller Oberhollabrunn Refugee Camp
| Issuer | K.K. Flüchtlingsstation Oberhollabrunn (Imperial and Royal Refugee Station Oberhollabrunn) |
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| Year | 1915-1918 |
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| Value | 5 Heller (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Brown paper note printed in black letterpress throughout, with a decorative border framing the entire face. The heading "K.K.FLÜCHTLINGSSTATION OBERHOLLABRUNN N.Ö." runs across the top, flanked by the numeral "5" at each corner. A central black cartouche bears the denomination "5 Heller" in bold lettering, with the redemption text in two columns to either side; a disclaimer clause regarding damaged or altered notes appears in a lower text panel, and the designation "LAGERGELD" (camp money) is set in a rectangular label at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | K.K.FLÜCHTLINGSSTATION OBERHOLLABRUNN N.Ö. Gegen diesen Schein zahlt die Kassa der k. k. Flüchtlingsstation Oberhollabrunn, N.-Ö. — solange diese Flüchtlingsstation besteht — dem Überbringer, u. zw. den zum Betreten d. Flüchtlingsstation berechtigten Gewerbetreibenden, sowie den Flüchtlingen bei ihrem Abgange a. d. Flüchtlingsstation fünf Heller 5 Heller in Barem aus. Stark beschmutzte u. hiedurch unleserlich gewordene Scheine, sowie solche, die Radierungen, Korrekturen, andere Änderungen oder Schriftzeichen aufweisen, sowie Scheine, denen ein Stück fehlt, werden nicht eingelöst. LAGERGELD |
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Oberhollabrunn, a small market town in Lower Austria, hosted one of the larger Austro-Hungarian refugee processing stations during the First World War, absorbing civilian populations displaced primarily from Galicia and Bukovina as Russian forces advanced in 1914–15. Camp scrip of this type was issued because normal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation by 1915 — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — leaving administrative facilities across the empire to print their own fractional notes for internal canteen and camp commerce.
The Camb#1595 designation places this among the documented Lagergeld issues, but surviving examples are genuinely uncommon. Most camp scrip of this period was redeemed, destroyed, or simply discarded at the war's end.