25 Pfennig

Bad Wörishofen's 25 Pfennig notgeld of 1921 belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — issued after the Reichsbank's postwar coin shortage had already dragged on for years, with no clear end in sight. By 1921, many municipalities had stopped treating notgeld as a stopgap and were commissioning illustrated series deliberately aimed at collectors, a market that had become commercially significant enough to sustain print runs well beyond local circulation needs.

Designer J. Dillitzer is credited on the series, though little biographical detail has been firmly established for him outside these issues. The DeNG reference 1449.1 indicates this is among the catalogued Bavarian municipal pieces, Bad Wörishofen being notable as the town where Sebastian Kneipp developed his hydrotherapy methods — a fact the municipality leaned on heavily in its identity and, predictably, its notgeld imagery.