99 Heller Puchenau

Puchenau is a small village on the north bank of the Danube opposite Linz, and this note is one of hundreds of Austrian Notgeld issues from the postwar inflation period — but the designer sets it apart entirely. Klemens Brosch was a genuinely accomplished Linz-born artist who died in 1926 at thirty-six, leaving a body of work now held in major Austrian collections. His involvement in municipal emergency currency was unusual for someone of his caliber, and Puchenau was fortunate to have him accessible across the river in Urfahr.

Three municipal signatories authenticated the issue — Breuer, Ganser, and Seyrl — a formality typical of the Gemeindeamt approval process under Austrian local governance at the time.