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| Uitgever | Stadt Gernrode im Harz (City of Gernrode im Harz) |
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| Jaar | 1921 |
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| Waarde | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Coloured letterpress vignette occupying the central field, presenting an eastern panoramic view of the Romanesque collegiate church of St. Cyriacus (Stiftskirche St. Cyriaci) set among the red-roofed townscape of Gernrode against a green hillside backdrop. Denomination numerals '50' appear in bold Fraktur type at each corner within a blue-ruled border, with the issuer title 'Notgeldschein der Stadt Gernrode-Harz' in Gothic script across the upper banner. The lower margin carries the validity clause, date of 24 Oktober 1921, a stamped serial number, and the facsimile signature of the Magistrat, with the printer's imprint 'Louis Koch-Halberstadt' at the foot. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | Möge die Reformation uns stets in dem Entschluß befestigen, allezelt einzutreten für unser ev. Bekenntnis und mit ihm für Gewissensfreiheit und Duldung! Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm nachmaliger Kaiser Friedrich III. bei der Luther Gedächtnisfeier zu Wittenberg 10.11.1883 Südliche Hauptempore mit Ausgang Aus d. oberen Kreuzgang Nördliche Hauptempore mit Ausgang |
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Gernrode is a small spa town in the Harz foothills, best known today for the Stiftskirche St. Cyriakus, one of the few largely intact examples of Ottonian Romanesque architecture in Germany. The note belongs to the enormous wave of municipal Notgeld issued across Germany during the severe coin shortage of 1921, when small-denomination metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation and hundreds of towns commissioned their own emergency paper.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house. Carl Mittag's involvement as designer points to the deliberate artistic ambition many municipalities invested in these issues — Notgeld became a collector vehicle almost immediately, and towns competed on visual quality.