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70 Heller Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner
| Issuer | Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 70 Hellers (0.7) |
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| Obverse description | Vertically oriented Notgeld note printed in blue on cream paper, with the upper register occupied by an expressionist woodcut-style vignette of an Alpine landscape: conifer trees and rolling hills in the foreground, a church with a domed tower rising against a radiant burst background. The denomination numeral '70' appears in each of the four corners of the vignette panel. The lower register carries a text panel with the place name 'Obernberg' in large Gothic script above the legend 'bei Gries am Brenner', the redemption clause, the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature 'Hölzler', and the edition notation '4. Auflage'. |
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| Obverse lettering | 70 Obernberg bei Gries am Brenner dieser Gutschein wird bis 5.Okt. 1920 eingelöst. Bürgermeister Hölzler 4. Auflage |
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Obernberg am Brenner is a small Tyrolean village sitting at roughly 1400 metres, straddling what became the contested Austrian-Italian border zone after the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The municipality issued these Heller notes as part of the broader Notgeld wave that swept rural Austria when coin shortages made small transactions nearly impossible — a problem acute enough in isolated mountain communities that even the smallest Gemeinden were authorised to print their own emergency scrip.
The signature of Bürgermeister Hölzler provides the only personal trace of the local official who authorised this particular series under extraordinarily uncertain political conditions, with the Brenner Pass itself having just become an international frontier.