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50 Heller Weitersfelden
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weitersfelden (Market Town of Weitersfelden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFZIG Die Gemeinde Weitersfelden in Oberösterreich gibt laut Beschluß vom 10. Mai 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von zehntausend Kronen aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse Weitersfelden in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Weitersfelden, am 10. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Heinrich Reknagel. Die Nachmachung dieses Gutscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. HELLER |
| Reverse description | The reverse, executed in a rich teal and dark green colour scheme in the Jugendstil manner, presents a central rectangular vignette of the Weitersfelden village panorama, with a church steeple rising above clustered rooftops set against rolling hills. The vignette is framed by bold, sweeping stylised leaf or grass forms that radiate outward across the entire field, creating a decorative Art Nouveau surround. The town name 'WEITERSFELDEN' appears in large Jugendstil lettering on a banner integrated into the lower portion of the central frame, with the printer's imprint and edition notice lettered in small type along the lower margin. |
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Klemens Brosch was an Urfahr-based artist who died in 1926 at thirty-six, leaving behind a small but distinctive body of work — including a number of these Austrian Notgeld commissions, which he both designed and printed himself. That dual role was unusual. Most municipal emergency currency of the 1920–1921 wave was farmed out to commercial printers working from interchangeable templates; Brosch's pieces have an identifiable hand behind them.
Weitersfelden is a small market commune in the Mühlviertel uplands of Upper Austria. Its need for fractional Notgeld in 1920 was straightforward: postwar coin shortages made small-denomination exchange nearly impossible at the local level.