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5 Kronen Landegg Refugee Camp

Issuer K.K. Barackenverwaltung Landegg (Imperial-Royal Barracks Administration Landegg)
Year 1915-1918
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Obverse description Printed in black letterpress on light blue paper, the voucher carries the issuer's title in a solid black header band at top reading 'K.K. BARACKENVERWALTUNG LANDEGG NÖ.' with the denomination numeral '5' in black corner cartouches at either side. A central oval vignette in black contains the large numeral '5' over the word 'KRONEN', framed by foliate ornaments, with the full payment obligation text disposed in two blocks above and below the vignette. A lower solid black footer band bears the legend 'LAGERGELD', and a decorative chain-link border frames the entire note.
Obverse lettering K.K. BARACKENVERWALTUNG LANDEGG NÖ.
Gegen diesen Schein zahlt die Kassa der k. k. Barackenverwaltung Landegg, N.-Ö. — solange dieses Barackenlager besteht — dem Überbringer, und zwar den zum Betreten des Barackenlagers berechtigten Gewerbetreibenden, sowie den Flüchtlingen bei ihrem Abgange aus dem Barackenlager
fünf Kronen
in Barem aus.
Stark beschmutzte und 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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Landegg, in Lower Austria, housed one of the larger internal refugee camps established by the Habsburg administration to manage the massive displacement of civilians — primarily from Galicia and Bukovina — following the Russian advances of 1914–15. Camp scrip like this 5 Kronen note was a deliberate containment measure: refugees were paid in currency only redeemable within the camp's own canteen and supply system, which both prevented economic friction with the surrounding civilian population and kept inhabitants financially dependent on the administration.

The issuing authority — K.K. Barackenverwaltung — was a purely local barracks management office, not a banking institution, which makes these notes administratively unusual. Most camp scrip from this network was printed on tinted paper in small quantities and discarded or destroyed when camps closed after 1918, leaving survivors genuinely scarce across the entire Camb 1584 series.

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