5 Mark

Berchtesgaden's 1919 notgeld issues emerged from the same municipal desperation that drove hundreds of small German towns to print their own emergency scrip as the Weimar-era coin shortage bit hard. Vonderthann & Sohn were a local printing house, not a specialist currency printer — the note was produced entirely within the district it was meant to serve, which is unusual even by notgeld standards.

The DeNG 3#038.03 reference places this within the Grabowski-Mehl notgeld cataloguing system. Berchtesgaden issues from this period are not particularly scarce but attract collector interest disproportionate to their rarity, largely due to the town's later associations.