Examples

The Botenlohn period spans the 1900 new-currency change. The examples are listed in fee then date order.

Kronen currency, pre-1900

Minipic	Amount	Details
	5 Kr	18 Nov 1897 from Station 13 to Station 129 arriving 20:50 with a Botenlohn of 5 Kr, a rate not recorded in the literature.
	5 Kr	Wien 64 to Wien 24: from the head office in Doblehofgasse to the factory in Brigittenau of the Provisions Industry Ice Works
	10 Kr	3 July 1885. Card sent from Neumanngasse to Fünfhaus Schönbrunnerstrasse for the messenger to take to Gaudensdorf.
	10 Kr	20 July 1885. Card sent from Kärntnerring to Fünfhaus Schönbrunnerstrasse for Gaudensdorf.
	10 Kr	14 Sep 1886. Another card from Neumanngasse via Fünfhaus Schönbrunnerstrasse for Gaudensdorf.
	10 Kr	8 Nov 1886. Another card from Kärntnerring via Fünfhaus to Gaudensdorf.
	10 Kr	Botenlohn handwritten on card sent from KKPS No1 [Centrale] to, presumably, Fünfhaus Schönbrunner­strasse for Gaudensdorf. Dated 25.1.1887 on back; off-centre fold
	10 Kr	5 Oct 1896. Letter-card to Rudolfsheim.
	15 Kr	24 March 1884. Telegrafen Centrale to Fünfhaus Schönbrunner Strasse, then to Meidling by messenger.
	15 Kr	20 July 1894. Station 15 (Wien 1/1) to Station 102 (Wien 16/1).
	15 Kr	27 May 1888. Kärtnerring to Funfhaus. Botenlohn for the Meidling delivery. The marking at bottom left is possibly a time, 10:10.
	20 Kr	Jan? 1884. Card sent from Fruchtborse to Taborstrasse (very near!) then by messenger to Klosterneubergstrasse, then in Bez. 2.
	20 Kr	K.K.Pneumatische Station XVI (Lazarethgasse) on April 19 1887, 2-3 pm to Taborstrasse (No 9 - Leopoldstadt) 3-4 pm for delivery to Nordbahnhof 3 Kohlenhof, almost 3 km outside of the Viennese postal district.
	30 Kr	15 June 1883. Sent from Zieglergasse to Taborstrasse office, then by messenger to Kaisermühlen. The destination of the 1883 example is Herrn J. A. Weber / Färbereibesitzer / II / Kaisermühlen / Stiftmühlenstrasse / Ecke der Berchtoldgasse / Wien. It's a card to Mr Weaver the Dyer, at his factory at the east end of Kaisermühlen, which is across the River Danube in Floridsdorf. The Kaisermühlen island was well known in the 18th century for its floating mills, all built of timber and drawing power from the current. When the French built a bridge across the Danube during the battle of Aspern (1805) the Austrians cut the mills adrift and set them on fire. They drifted downstream to the French bridge and successfully burnt it down. Kaisermühlen now houses U N City, and the Austria Centre where WIPA2008 was held.
	30 Kr	14 Dec 1888. Central Telegraph Office to Taborstrasse office for the Gasworks. Botenlohn apparently altered from 20Kr to 30Kr: perhaps it was snowing. Taborstrasse is in Vienna II, near Augarten. In 1839, the Imperial Continental Gas Gesellschaft, founded in London, opened its first Viennese gas works in Fünfhaus. It prospered in spite of squabbles with Vienna's City Council, and in 1845 opened a works in Floridsdorf, which lies across the River Danube and wasn't a part of Vienna until 1904. There were no other Viennese gas works on that side of the Danube Canal then (or indeed since).
There is a plausible explanation for these two 30K Botenlöhne - which are thought to be the only two known. Both are to destinations which were at the time outside the city boundary. See "The enlargement of Vienna".
	??	Sent from Wien 15 1/1 at 11:50 on 10. VI.1890. Arrived at Wien 24 20/2 at 15:50 10.VI.1890 (month could be VII), then by messenger to Rotonde, Prater.

Heller currency, post-1900

Minipic	Amount	Details
	10 h	22 April 1908. Ottakring (Wien 102) to Nordwestbahnhof (Wien 24) for delivery to the Rosenthal warehouse in the 20th district, across the Donau canal and outside of the Viennese local postal district
	20 h	30 Dec 1902. Wien 20/2 to Herr Schacherl at Engerthstrasse 150 in the Brigittenau, near the Floridsdorfer Brücke. The arrival cancel is almost readable. Boxed Botenlohn with 20h in blue crayon.
	20h	11 Oct 1904. Station 62 (Neubau II) to Station 74 (Favoriten), arriving 17:10. Botenlohn of 20 Heller, although the cachet is the old one with Kr.
	??	15 Dec 1902. Sent from Wien 23 2/1 to Wien 24 20/2, then by messenger to Augerthstrasse XX/2. 10 heller ordinary lettercard with additional 4 x 6h adhesives making 34h total; the pneumatic rate was 30h.