1/2 Mark

Kandrzin-Pogorzelletz — the hyphenated pairing of two adjacent industrial settlements on the Oder — issued this Notgeld during the plebiscite period that followed the Treaty of Versailles, when Upper Silesia's political future was still being contested between Germany and Poland. The vote took place in March 1921; this note belongs to that charged interregnum when local municipalities printed their own fractional currency because central supply had broken down and the outcome of partition was genuinely unknown.

Grass, Barth & Comp. (W. Friedrich) in Breslau handled a large volume of Silesian Notgeld commissions during this period — a logical choice given proximity, but one that would itself become a political footnote as Breslau later passed to Poland as Wrocław after 1945.