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1 Mark
| Issuer | Kirchengemeinde Stockelsdorf |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on orange paper, the obverse presents a symmetrical Art Deco composition with two stylised winged angel figures in Expressionist woodcut style flanking a central rectangular cartouche bearing the large denomination numeral '1' above the monogram 'M'. A lower panel carries the issuer inscription in bold block lettering, beneath which a narrow strip bears the redemption date legend and the designer's name 'GRÖVING' below the outer border. |
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| Obverse lettering | KIRCHENGEMEINDE STOCKELSDORF EINLÖSBAR BIS 15. DEZEMBER 1921 GRÖVING |
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Kirchengemeinde Stockelsdorf — a Lutheran parish community in Holstein — issued this note as emergency currency during the Kleingeldnot of the early Weimar period, when coin shortages made small-denomination exchange nearly impossible. Parish communities issuing Notgeld were uncommon but not unknown; the church here was acting as a quasi-municipal authority in the absence of any other local administrative body with the standing to do so.
The designer credit "Gröving" appears on a number of Holstein-area Notgeld pieces from this period, though little biographical detail has been firmly established.