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1 Mark Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Lähn im Riesengebirge |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in olive-green and dark brown on cream paper. A central vignette presents a solitary deciduous tree set against a swirling guilloche underprint, flanked by draped green curtains tied with ornamental bows. At left and right, dark brown panels each bear the denomination numeral "1" above the word "Mark" within dotted borders, while a scroll cartouche at the top carries the town name. The lower portion contains a two-line payment text in Gothic script followed by the denomination in large display lettering, with a serial number prefix letter and number at the bottom left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a detailed letterpress historical vignette in olive-green and dark brown, framed by ornate side panels with floral and scroll decoration. The scene illustrates the involuntary stop of Frederick the Great in Lähn in 1766, rendered in the manner of a period engraving: the king is shown conversing with local figures beside a horse-drawn carriage in a rural setting with trees and a cottage beyond. Below the vignette, a green panel bears the caption in Gothic script. Denomination panels marked "1 Mark" appear at lower left and right, and the printer's patent notice is printed in small type along the bottom margin. |
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Lähn im Riesengebirge — today the Polish town of Wleń — was a small Silesian resort community, and its municipal savings bank was among hundreds of German local institutions that resorted to emergency notgeld during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922. Flemming-Wiskott in Glogau was a prolific regional printer of such issues, handling commissions from numerous Silesian towns simultaneously, which accounts for the family resemblance across many Sparkasse notes of this type and period.
The Städtische Sparkasse series from Lähn attracts modest collector interest largely because the town itself disappeared from German administrative maps after 1945.