1 Mark

Partenkirchen issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1921, well before the hyperinflationary collapse of 1922–23. These municipal Notgeld pieces were authorized locally and redeemable in theory, though in practice many towns issued far more than they could back — redemption was uneven at best.

J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a regional printer serving numerous Bavarian and Allgäu municipalities during this period, not one of the major Notgeld specialty houses. Partenkirchen would merge with the neighboring town of Garmisch in 1935 by direct order of Adolf Hitler, ahead of the Winter Olympics.