25 Pfennig - Rothenburg ob der Tauber Röder Tor

Issued during the Notgeld crisis of the early Weimar period, when municipal and commercial bodies across Germany filled the void left by a collapsed central coin supply. Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a town that had carefully cultivated its medieval identity as a tourist destination since the late 19th century, leaned into that image aggressively in its emergency coinage — the Röder Tor being one of the city's most recognizable surviving medieval gates.

Iron was a pragmatic choice in 1921, with nickel and copper still diverted or scarce following wartime requisitioning. The Funck reference places this among the later municipal iron issues, by which point the Notgeld series had become as much a collector commodity as a circulating necessity.