50 Heller Atzenbrugg

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.