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1 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Kreuzburg (Upper Silesia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kreuzburg in Oberschlesien Eine Mark 1 Dieser Gutschein ist nur für den Verkehr mit den städt. Kassen bestimmt Der Magistrat: Re verliert einen Monat nach öffentlichem Aufruf seine Gültigkeit FLEMMING - WISKOTT - A.G. GLOGAU |
| Reverse description | Full-width woodcut-style vignette by W. Lippert portrays a medieval scene of Teutonic knights of the Order of the Cross with the Red Star receiving Silesian settlers during the 13th-century Piast colonisation, rendered in brown and terracotta on cream paper. A multi-line Gothic-script historical quotation from Gustav Freytag's 'Erinnerungen' occupies the lower register within a ruled panel. |
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Kreuzburg — now Kluczbork in present-day Poland — issued this notgeld in 1921 under direct pressure from the Upper Silesian plebiscite crisis. The town voted overwhelmingly to remain German on March 20th of that year, yet the final partition awarded the surrounding industrial district to Poland, leaving towns like Kreuzburg in a prolonged administrative limbo that made municipal scrip both a practical and a quietly political gesture.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. in Glogau handled a substantial volume of Silesian notgeld during this period. The designer credit to W. Lippert is relatively rare for issues from this printer's output.