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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Worpswede (Municipality of Worpswede) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Worpswede Woler un Burwakt in Natur WALTER MÜLLER |
| Reverse description | Reverse printed in the same expressionist woodcut style in rose-red and green, with a matching border frame. A large bold numeral '50' dominates the upper portion, surrounded by stylised thistle or spiky plant vignettes in green and red. A diagonal black scroll in the lower half carries the redemption clause in Gothic blackletter, with the printer's imprint 'KÜNSTLERPRESSE WORPSWEDE' at lower right. |
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Worpswede was no ordinary German village when this note was issued — it had been a celebrated artists' colony since the 1890s, home to Paula Modersohn-Becker, Heinrich Vogeler, and others who made the moorland north of Bremen internationally known. That the municipality ran its own press, the Künstlerpresse Worpswede, and used it to produce emergency currency is entirely in keeping with the place's self-conscious artistic identity.
Walter Müller's involvement ensured the note was treated as a designed object, not a stopgap administrative form. Notgeld from artist communities printed on their own presses is genuinely uncommon among the thousands of issues from the 1918–1922 inflation period.