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50 Pfennig Kloster Heisterbach
| Issuer | Königswinter, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a detailed pen-and-ink style view of the former Cistercian abbey church of Heisterbach set amid foliage, rendered in brown and green tones. Ornamental columns with foliate capitals flank the vignette on both sides, with heraldic devices — a floral shield at lower left and a griffin at lower right — set within decorative side panels. The denomination numeral '50' appears in green at each upper corner, and the printer's name 'B. Kühlen, M. Gladbach' is printed in small type along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Gesamtansicht der ehemaligen Zisterzienster-Kirche FRZ. JOS. KRINGS Dieser Schein gilt als Zahlungsmittel nur für Heisterbach. Der Betrag der nach Bekanntmachung nicht eingelösten Scheine dient zur Erhaltung d. kulturhistor. Stätte. Heisterbach, 1. 11. 21. B. Kühlen, M. Gladbach |
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Königswinter's 1921 Notgeld series leaned heavily on the ruins of Kloster Heisterbach, the Cistercian monastery whose collapsed choir became one of the most reproduced Romantic-era images in the Rhineland. The monastery was dissolved during the French Revolutionary occupation in 1809 and largely demolished, leaving the famous apse standing alone — a ruin by administrative decision rather than by war or fire.
B. Kühlen in Mönchengladbach was a prolific Notgeld printer, responsible for much of the regional emergency currency issued across the lower Rhine towns in this period. Designer Frz. Jos. Krings was a local Rhineland artist whose work appeared across several Kühlen-printed issues.