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25 Pfennig Ottendorf bei Bunzlau; Gemeindekirchenrat
| Issuer | Evangelischer Gemeindekirchenrat Ottendorf bei Bunzlau |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld zur Wiedereinweihung des evgl. Bethauses zu Ottendorf Einft beteten Ritter und Bauer und Tros In schlichter Kapelle im alten Schloß. (Translation: Emergency money for the rededication of the Protestant prayer house in Ottendorf Once knights and farmers and train Prayed in the simple chapel in the old castle.) |
| Reverse description | A bird's-eye cartographic vignette of the Ottendorf area as it appeared circa 1750, following the re-establishment of the Protestant parish, with surrounding letterpress inscriptions bearing motivational and religious maxims. |
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Ottendorf bei Bunzlau is a small Silesian village — the kind of community that would never appear in currency literature were it not for the Notgeld frenzy of the early Weimar years. By 1921 the postwar coin shortage had pushed even parish church councils into the business of issuing emergency money, and this piece from the Evangelischer Gemeindekirchenrat is an unusually ecclesiastical source for a circulating instrument. Church-body issuers at this scale are uncommon in the Notgeld record.
F. Fernbach of Nurnlau handled the printing — a small regional press typical of the thousands of minor Notgeld contracts placed across provincial Germany during this period.