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50 Heller Feuersbrunn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Feuersbrunn (Municipality of Feuersbrunn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green and brown on cream paper, the note is divided into two panels within a decorative letterpress border of interlocking geometric ornaments. The left panel carries the denomination numeral '50' set within a dark foliate vignette surmounted by a spread eagle, below which the text 'HELLER' and 'Gut-Schein der Gemeinde Feuersbrunn' appear in Gothic script; a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister is placed beneath, with a light underprint of the numeral '50'. The right panel is occupied by a brown bird's-eye panoramic vignette of the town of Feuersbrunn with a church spire visible among rooftops against a hilly landscape, accompanied by the validity and redemption inscriptions. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 HELLER Gut-Schein der Gemeinde Feuersbrunn DER BÜRGERMEISTER DIE GEMEINDE FEUERSBRUNN N.Ö. ÜBERNIMMT DIE HAFTUNG, DIESEN GUTSCHEIN IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINZULÖSEN. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES GUTSCHEINES WIRD BESTRAFT. |
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Feuersbrunn is a small wine-growing village in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the catastrophic currency conditions that followed Austria-Hungary's collapse. With the new Austrian state unable to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation, hundreds of municipalities — including tiny agricultural communes like Feuersbrunn — were legally permitted to issue their own emergency paper (Notgeld) from 1919 onward. The printer, Lithographische Druck f. Seitenberg of Vienna, handled commissions for numerous such local issues during this period.
These commune-level notes were redeemable only within the issuing locality and were supposed to be withdrawn once coinage normalized — which for most Lower Austrian villages happened in 1921 or 1922.