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1 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wittdün (Nordseebad Wittdün, Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Nordseebad Wittdün 1 Mark Gemeindevorsteher Stellv. Gem. Vorsteher Verordneter Verordneter Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 4 Wochen nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung im Amrumer Anzeiger |
| Reverse description | Central octagonal vignette, framed by a bold red-printed border, presents an intaglio landscape scene of the Andreas Hofer monument set against a panoramic Alpine valley backdrop, captioned 'HOFER zu MERAN im GERAUBTEN TIROL' and signed by the designer 'W. NORBERT' at left. The denomination 'Notgeld / 1 / Mark' is repeated in Fraktur on both sides of the vignette, with the slogans 'Heil den unerlösten Brüdern' printed below. A continuous border of Gothic blackletter text runs on all four outer edges of the note, with the bottom margin mirrored upside-down, and the printer's imprint 'Kupfertiefdruck von Broschek & Co., Hamburg.' appears beneath the central panel. |
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Wittdün is a small seaside resort on the island of Amrum, and this 1 Mark Gemeindeschein was issued during the acute coin shortage that plagued German municipalities in the early 1920s — a period when even tiny Baltic and North Sea resort communities printed their own emergency currency rather than wait for centrally minted coinage that never arrived reliably. Broschek & Co. in Hamburg handled a considerable volume of such local Notgeld work during this period, which partly explains the relatively polished production quality for a note of such limited intended circulation.
The designer credit to W. Norbert is worth noting — named designers on municipal Notgeld are less common than anonymous trade print runs.