25 Pfennig

Neudorf bei Kattowitz was a small industrial commune on the eastern edge of the Silesian coalfield, and this note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward — silver coinage had been hoarded or melted, and the Reichsbank could not keep low-denomination coin in circulation. Municipal treasuries across Silesia began printing their own Notgeld rather than wait for central relief that rarely came in sufficient quantities.

Franz Knote was a Gleiwitz commercial printer with no particular specialization in security work, which is why the official stamp functions as the primary — essentially the only — authentication mechanism. Without it, the note was just paper.