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50 Heller Atzenbrugg
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Atzenbrugg (Commune of Atzenbrugg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0063Ia-50 |
| Obverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by an oval portrait vignette of composer Franz Schubert within an ornate frame of fine cross-hatched guilloche work and scrolled borders. An inscription below the portrait commemorates Schubert's stays in Atzenbrugg during the years 1820–1828, with the note 'Im Lenz 1908' and 'Enthüllt am 31. Mai 1908' along the lower border. The right half carries the denomination numeral '50' in a ruled panel at upper right, with the large Gothic-script legend 'Gut-Schein der Ortsgemeinde Atzenbrugg' in the central field, beneath which appear several manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in letterpress on plain cream paper, carrying a full German-language legal text explaining the purpose and conditions of the issue. The denomination 'Fünfzig Heller.' is set in bold type beneath the heading 'Kassenschein der Ortsgemeinde Atzenbrugg über', followed by paragraphs detailing the total issue of 10,000 Kronen, the non-interest-bearing nature of the notes, redemption terms through 31 December 1920, a counterfeiting warning, and a pledge of the commune's entire assets as guarantee. |
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Atzenbrugg is a small village in Lower Austria best known, to the extent it is known at all, as the site of the "Atzenbrugg parties" — the summer gatherings hosted by Franz von Schober where Franz Schubert and his circle spent several seasons in the early 1820s. The commune's notgeld has nothing to do with that history; it was issued a century later out of straightforward necessity, when the postwar coin shortage across Austria forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency small-denomination paper.
The Jaksch catalogue prefix places this firmly within the Lower Austrian municipal notgeld corpus. Atzenbrugg's issues are not among the rarer examples from the region, but genuine unused examples are harder to find than the series' modest fame would suggest.