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50 Heller Weitenegg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Weitenegg (Market Town of Weitenegg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress on cream paper with a wavy-line guilloche underprint throughout. A central rectangular vignette presents a woodcut-style view of Weitenegg castle and village on the Danube riverbank. The denomination '50' appears in ornamental cartouches at upper left and right, with 'GUTSCHEIN' in bold capitals across the top and 'Fünfzig' and 'Heller' flanking the vignette at centre left and right respectively. Below the vignette, the issuing authority and date 'WEITENEGG A/D. 1. APRIL 1920.' are inscribed, with facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister at lower left and right. |
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| Signature(s) | Ludwig Gruber (Vizebürgermeister) and Ignaz Söllner (Bürgermeister) |
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Weitenegg is a small market town on the Danube in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that followed Austria's post-war monetary collapse. Municipal and local authorities across German-speaking Austria issued their own emergency currency between 1919 and 1922 because the central supply of small-denomination coins and notes simply failed to reach rural communities in usable quantities. Weitenegg's answer was a locally authorized scrip, signed by the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister to give it what legitimacy a market town could muster.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1163a places this within the Lower Austrian Notgeld series — a classification running into thousands of entries, most issued by communities no larger than Weitenegg.