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1 Mark
| Issuer | Bückeburg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 89 × 55 mm |
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| Reverse description | Yellow and green letterpress reverse centred on a vignette of the ornate Baroque facade of the Bückeburg Lutheran Church (Stadtkirche), captioned 'BÜCKEBURG LUTHER-KIRCHE'. The denomination '1 Mk' appears in large green numerals on both the left and right panels. The surrounding yellow fields carry a four-strophe Low German poem by Dr. Bensen ('Ülse Vaterland'), with the stanza text distributed across all four corners of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Ja, us' leiv oll' schaumbörger Land 4. Strophe des Gedichtes Höllt Godd in sinen Hännen, BÜCKEBURG LUTHER-KIRCHE Un wat ot jümmer üs bedräppt, Ülse Vaterland' v. Dr. Bensen Hei werd't tau'n Besten wennen. 1 Mk |
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Bückeburg was the capital of the tiny state of Schaumburg-Lippe, one of the smallest sovereign territories to survive into the Weimar Republic. This 1921 note belongs to the wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany as small towns and cities stepped in to fill the coin vacuum caused by metal hoarding and postwar disruption — the Reichsbank simply could not keep fractional currency in circulation fast enough.
H.M. Hauschild in Bremen was a prolific Notgeld printer, handling commissions from municipalities across northern Germany. The DeNG reference suggests multiple varieties exist within this issue — collectors should verify serial or color differences before attributing to a specific subtype.