10 Mark

Maulbronn's Bezirksrat issued this note in 1918 as part of the broader German Notgeld wave that swept municipal and district administrations when the Reichsbank simply could not keep small-denomination currency in circulation during the final year of the war. The Amtskörperschaft — the district corporate body, a distinctly Württemberg administrative unit — had the legal authority to issue such emergency money, though the legitimacy of these instruments was always provisional and locally enforced rather than nationally guaranteed.

Printing was contracted to Vereinigte Anstalten in Kaufbeuren, a Bavarian firm that handled Notgeld commissions for issuers well outside Bavaria. The cross-state printing arrangement was entirely routine by 1918.