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| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Partenkirchen (Market Town of Partenkirchen, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper ground enclosed by a narrow orange border rule with tall black letterpress side panels filled with stylized foliate ornament; the denomination numeral '3' appears in each corner in orange. The central field is set in flowing Fraktur script, with the issuer legend and denomination in black accented by selective orange highlights, and a manuscript signature of the 1. Bürgermeister in the lower centre beneath the council authority line. The note is dated Partenkirchen, den 1.3.21. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld des Marktes Partenkirchen Drei Mark Partenkirchen, den 1.3.21 Der Gemeinderat 1. Bürgermeister 3 3 3 3 |
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Partenkirchen issued its own notgeld in 1921 as the Weimar inflation began eroding the purchasing power of Reichsmark coinage faster than the central authorities could replace it. Municipal and small-town emergency money of this type was printed locally across Bavaria in enormous variety during this period, and J. A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was one of several regional job printers who picked up steady notgeld work as demand spiked.
Partenkirchen would merge with the neighboring town of Garmisch in 1935 — a forced administrative union under National Socialist consolidation policy — making all pre-merger Partenkirchen issues documents of a municipality that no longer exists by that name.