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10 Mark Detlev v. Liliencron Gesellschaft
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altrahlstedt (Municipality of Altrahlstedt) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Warm ochre and tan ground framed by an ornate arch border with foliate and bird motifs in cream, the denomination '10 M' printed in large numerals at upper left and right. The central arched vignette, signed 'O. THÄMER', portrays a standing male figure in overcoat contemplating an open heathland landscape under a dramatic sky with golden clouds, a bare tree silhouetted to the left. A four-line verse from Liliencron's 'Haidebilder' is set in Gothic script in the lower margin panel. |
| Reverse lettering | Detlev von Liliencron-Gesellschaft-Altrahlstedt 10 M Tiefeinsamkeit, es schlingt um deine Pforte Die Erika ihr rotes Band. Von Menschen leer, was braucht es noch der Worte, Sei mir gegrüßt, du stilles Land. Liliencron Haidebilder |
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Altrahlstedt was an independent municipality northeast of Hamburg that issued this note in 1922 during Germany's escalating inflation crisis, when local authorities across the country were printing their own Notgeld simply to keep commerce functioning. The issuing body named itself after the Detlev von Liliencron Gesellschaft — a society honoring the poet Detlev von Liliencron, who had lived in Altrahlstedt and died there in 1909. Using a cultural society rather than the municipal treasury as the nominal issuer was an administrative convenience, not unusual in Schleswig-Holstein Notgeld of this period.
Designer O. Thämer is otherwise poorly documented in the Notgeld literature. Altrahlstedt was incorporated into Hamburg in 1927, ending its municipal independence entirely.