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75 Pfennig Kloster Heisterbach
| Issuer | Königswinter, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in deep red and grey, with standing figures of Saints Benedict and Barnabas rendered in a Gothic sculptural style on pedestals at the left and right margins, set within pointed Gothic arch frames with decorative scroll borders. The centre panel contains a framed text excerpt from the legend 'Der Mönch zu Heisterbach' (stanzas 5 and 6) by Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter, set in Gothic blackletter script. The place name 'Heisterbach im Siebengebirge' is displayed in large decorative lettering across the lower portion. |
| Reverse lettering | Der Mönch zu Heisterbach. (5. u. 6.) Nach seinem Stuhle eilend tritt er ein, Doch wunderbar, ein and'rer sitzet dort; Er überblickt der Mönche lange Reih'n: Nur Unbekannte findet er am Ort. Der Staunende wird angestaunt ringsum, Man fragt nach Namen, fragt n. d. Begehr, Er sagt's, da murmelt man durchs Heilig- tum: 300 Jahre hieß so niemand mehr. Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter. Heisterbach im Siebengebirge. S. Benedictus S. Barnabas |
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Königswinter issued this Notgeld piece during the early 1920s inflationary spiral, when hundreds of German municipalities printed their own small-denomination scrip to cover the chronic shortage of official coinage. B. Kühlen of Mönchengladbach was a prolific regional printer of Rhineland Notgeld, producing series for numerous towns during this period.
The Heisterbach connection is the note's real point of interest. The Cistercian monastery at Heisterbach, dissolved under Napoleonic secularization in 1803, was already a romantic ruin by 1921 — its partially standing choir a pilgrimage site for painters and poets throughout the 19th century.