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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wedel (City of Wedel) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in a richly coloured illustrative style by the artist O. Kurz, divided into three vertical vignette panels separated by decorative borders with red and black folk-art ornament. The left panel shows a farmer harvesting grain, the centre panel a gardener collecting fruit into a large basket beneath a fruiting tree, and the right panel two fishermen mending nets — allegorical representations of Wedel's agricultural and maritime trades. A two-line verse in Gothic script runs above and below the triptych. |
| Reverse lettering | Bauer / Gärtner / Fischersmann Schaffen fleißig Nahrung an. Schützten in Blockade-Not Uns im Krieg vorm Hungertod. O. KURZ |
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Wedel, a small town on the Elbe west of Hamburg, issued this note during the Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities in 1921 — a period when chronic coin shortages and postwar monetary instability pushed even minor local authorities into printing their own emergency currency. Stadt Wedel had no particular banking infrastructure behind it; the note circulated on municipal authority alone, redeemable in theory against Reichsmark equivalent.
The designer credit to O. Kurz is unusually specific for a provincial Notgeld. Local artists were frequently commissioned for these series, and the Wedel issues were among the more carefully produced examples from smaller Holstein towns.