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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 | Printed in blue and brown on white paper, the obverse carries a geometric cross-and-lozenge guilloche border framing a central rectangular vignette with a panoramic townscape view of Kirchberg am Wagram, showing the church tower rising above the roofline against an open sky. Below the vignette, an oval municipal seal overlaps the text block, which sets out the redemption conditions in Gothic blackletter script, flanked by the denomination numeral '80' in white on blue ground at each upper corner. The title inscription 'Notgeld der Marktgemeinde Kirchberg a. Wagram' appears in blackletter at the top, and two manuscript signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister are present in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on white paper, the reverse is entirely covered by a bold geometric underprint of interlocking diagonal chevron and diamond shapes in a repeating herringbone pattern. At the centre, a circular municipal seal vignette is set within a plain reserve, enclosing a stylised depiction of a church or tower building with scrollwork surrounds, circumscribed by the legend 'MARKTGEMEINDE KIRCHBERG AM WAGRAM' with a small ornamental stop below. |
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Austrian Notgeld of this period emerged from a genuine coin shortage that began during the First World War and dragged well into the early 1920s. Municipalities, businesses, and even private associations were issuing their own emergency fractions because the central government simply could not supply enough small change. Kirchberg am Wagram, a market town in Lower Austria's Wagram wine country, issued this 80 Heller note as part of that broader municipal scramble.
The designer credit "Broinger" is not widely documented in the Notgeld literature — likely a local artist rather than one of the Vienna commercial studios that handled many of the more elaborate series.