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25 Pfennig Verkehrsverein
| Issuer | Verkehrsverein Königswinter |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Frz. Jos. Kringi |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red-orange, black, and pale blue on white paper, with a bold decorative border of zigzag cartouches framing the composition. A central vignette by artist Frz. Jos. Kringi presents a dramatic lithographic view of the ruins of Drachenfels castle rising above rocky terrain with autumnal foliage rendered in red-orange wash. Denomination panels reading "25 Ꝑ" appear in the upper left and right corners, flanked by text cartouches bearing redemption conditions on the left and the issuing authority and date on the right; the place name "KOENIGSWINTER (RHEIN)" is set in bold block lettering along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red, black, and pale blue, with a bold decorative outer border. At centre, a circular portrait vignette presents a half-length likeness of Katharina Walpottin von Bassenheim, Burggräfin von Drachenfels, dressed in a Renaissance fur-trimmed costume with a ruff collar, dated 1677; the serial prefix and number "Æ 42" appear above the vignette. Two heraldic shields flank the central panel: on the left, a tower and cross device; on the right, a dragon rampant. The top and bottom margins carry the subject's name and title in bold letterpress. |
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Königswinter's tourist association — the Verkehrsverein — issued this note during the notgeld boom of 1920–1921, when hundreds of German municipalities and private bodies flooded the market with small-denomination paper to relieve the chronic shortage of fractional coinage. The Verkehrsverein issues were aimed squarely at the collector trade as much as at local circulation; by 1921 the line between functional emergency currency and souvenir scrip had largely dissolved.
Franz Josef Kringi was a local Rhineland artist whose name appears on several Königswinter issues. His involvement suggests the notes were commissioned with regional identity firmly in mind — the Siebengebirge and its Rhine-tourist associations were reliable design territory for a town that lived off summer visitors.