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80 Heller Kirchberg am Wagram
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Kirchberg am Wagram |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue printed in brown and black on cream paper, with an elaborate geometric border of interlocking hourglass and diamond motifs enclosing the entire face. The central rectangular vignette presents a woodcut-style panoramic townscape of Kirchberg am Wagram with a church tower rising above the roofline, flanked by the denomination numeral '80' in white on solid black panels at upper left and right. Below the vignette, a text panel carries the voucher legend and validity clause alongside a circular official municipal seal, with two manuscript signature lines for the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister; the designer's credit 'fec. Broinger' appears at lower left outside the border. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown on cream paper, the reverse carries a bold geometric underprint of interlocking diagonal rhombus shapes creating an optical cube pattern across the full field. At centre, a circular medallion bears the engraved municipal seal of Kirchberg am Wagram, showing a fortified tower with flanking buildings over water, enclosed by the legend 'MARKTGEMEINDE KIRCHBERG AM WAGRAM' with a small ornamental separator below. |
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One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced during the hyperinflationary chaos following the collapse of the Habsburg economy, this 80 Heller note was printed locally in Kirchberg am Wagram — a small market town on the Danube plain northwest of Vienna. Municipal and district authorities across Austria resorted to issuing their own emergency scrip from 1919 onward simply because small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted down.
The designer Broinger is otherwise poorly documented in the Notgeld literature. Local production means print quality varied considerably across the run.