Catalog
1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Holzminden |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD d. STADT HOLZMINDEN 1 MARK Dieser Schein wird von der Stadtkasse in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit am 1. Mai 1922 Der Rat d. Stadt: DRUCK: GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, HANNOVER. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a colourful illustrated vignette in green, yellow, and black within a beaded rectangular border with scrollwork corner ornaments, presenting a scene from the Holzminden marksmen's festival. The central figure, identified as the Schützenkönig (shooting king), is shown wreathed in a garland and escorted by attendants in traditional dress, with a crowd and townscape visible behind. The denomination 1M appears in the lower left and right corners, with the inscriptions HOLZMINDENER SCHÜTZENFEST and SCHÜTZENKÖNIG (BILD 4) in the upper corners. |
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Holzminden is a small town on the Weser River in Lower Saxony, and its Stadtkasse — the municipal treasury — was among hundreds of German local authorities that issued their own emergency currency during the hyperinflation spiral of the early 1920s. This Notgeld was a practical stopgap, not a monetary experiment: the Reichsbank simply could not supply small-denomination notes fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power.
Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover was a well-established commercial printer with a long history in securities and official printing work, which gave these municipal issues a more finished appearance than many comparable Notgeld pieces from smaller or less connected towns.