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50 Heller Schwarzenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schwarzenau (Municipality of Schwarzenau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein über Fünfzig 50 Heller Nur giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Gemeinde Schwarzenau Nl. Österreich. Finanzreferent: Otto Engel Bürgermeister: Aug. Hutterer Vize-Bürgermeister: Joh. Lugerner |
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| Signature(s) | Otto Engel (Finanzreferent) and Aug. Hutterer (Bürgermeister) and Joh. Lugerner (Vize-Bürgermeister) |
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Schwarzenau is a small market town in Lower Austria's Waldviertel region, and this note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the economic collapse following the First World War. The central government could not supply sufficient small change, so thousands of local authorities — from city councils to market communes like Schwarzenau — printed their own emergency fractional currency. Three signatures were required for issue: the financial officer and both the mayor and vice-mayor, a formality that gave the scrip at least the appearance of institutional weight.
The Waldviertel notgeld issues are among the least-studied of the Austrian series, and municipal records from many of these villages are incomplete.