1 Mark Landkreis Bochum

Landkreis Bochum — the rural district surrounding the city rather than the city itself — issued its own emergency currency in 1921 as the Weimar inflation crisis made Reichsmark coinage increasingly impractical. These Notgeld issues at the district level were common across the Ruhr, but the sheer administrative fragmentation of the period meant that neighboring jurisdictions were simultaneously running incompatible parallel currencies.

F. A. Gimmerthal operated out of Langendreer, at the time still a separate industrial municipality east of Bochum, absorbed into the city only in 1929.