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50 Heller Oberndorf a. d. Salzach
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Oberndorf bei Salzburg (Market Town of Oberndorf an der Salzach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | A. Thalmaister |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint on cream paper with three central vignettes arranged horizontally: at left, a circular portrait medallion of Josef Mohr with musical staff notation below and the inscription 'Stille Nacht'; at centre, an oval vignette of the Oberndorf parish church; at right, a circular portrait medallion of Franz Xaver Gruber with musical staff notation and the inscription 'Heilige Nacht'. The denomination '50 Heller' appears in Gothic script at upper left and right, with the issuer's title 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Oberndorf S/z.' in ornate Fraktur lettering across the top. Below the central church vignette reads 'Uraufführung des Liedes Oberndorf 24.XII.1818', commemorating the first performance of 'Silent Night'. Designer's signature 'Aus. Thalmaister' appears at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Oberndorf S/z. 50 Heller Heller 50 Mohr Gruber Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht Uraufführung des Liedes Oberndorf 24.XII.1818 Aus. Thalmaister |
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Oberndorf's notgeld program is inseparable from the town's single most commercially exploitable asset: "Stille Nacht" was composed there in 1818, and by 1920 the municipality was already leaning into that association for tourism and local pride. Whether Thalmaister's design reflects that is catalogued elsewhere, but the timing — two years into Austria's post-imperial economic collapse — explains why the note exists at all. The Salzburg region produced an unusually dense concentration of notgeld issues in this period, many of them locally printed and artistically ambitious relative to their face value.
The JPR0690a designation suggests this is the earlier of at least two recorded varieties for the 50 Heller denomination.