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1 Mark Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Attendorn |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#51.1 |
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| Obverse lettering | die Städtische Sparkasse Attendorn i/W. zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Eine Mark Attendorn i/W. Der Magistrat: Konto B 1 M Flemming u. Wiskott A.G. Glogau Bieckerturm Pulverturm |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a panoramic lithographic view of Attendorn with its church spire and rooftops set against a rolling landscape, framed by a rectangular border; the artist's signature 'Grittier Kriwub' appears in the upper right of the vignette. Side panels carry ink drawings of a conifer at left and a deciduous tree at right, each above a blue '1 M' cartouche. The header band bears the dates '1222' and '1922' flanking the legend '700 jähriges Stadtjubiläum', commemorating the 700th anniversary of the city's founding, and the town name 'Attendorn i/W.' runs across the lower panel. |
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Attendorn is a small market town in Westphalia, and its municipal savings bank — the Städtische Sparkasse — was one of hundreds of local German institutions forced into emergency currency issuance during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922. These Sparkassen notes occupied an awkward legal position: technically Notgeld, practically indispensable, and ultimately worthless within months of issue as the Reichsmark collapsed entirely the following year.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau printed enormous volumes of municipal emergency notes during this period, which means the printing quality is competent but unremarkable. What distinguishes individual pieces in the series is survival condition — Sparkasse Notgeld was often saved as curiosities rather than spent, a habit that ironically preserved more examples than circulated banknotes from the same era.