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75 Pfennig Leuchtenburg - Issue 2A: Rudelsburg
| Issuer | Kahla (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Thüringer Leu – Dem Reiche treu Gutschein über fünfundsiebzig Pfennig Wird a. d. Leuchtenburg u. d. d. Bank f. Thüringen bis zum 31. Dez. 1921 i Zahlung genomm. Leuchtenburg-Saale 15. Juni 1921 Der Burgwirt Georg Ohage Das Thüringer Wappen am Turm der Leuchtenburg b. Kahla, Saale a. d. 4. Jahrhundert |
| Reverse description | Printed in sepia and black on cream stock, the reverse is enclosed by a letterpress border of oak leaves and acorns. Cartouches at upper left and upper right carry the series designations 'Serie II' and 'Gruppe A' respectively, while the heading 'Thüringer Burgen' introduces the central circular vignette — a photographic-style view of Rudelsburg castle set on a wooded cliff above the Saale valley, with a small Thuringian lion shield at the lower interior of the circle. The denomination '75 Pfennig' appears in bold Gothic numerals to the left of the vignette and the castle name 'Die Rudelsburg' in decorative script to the right, with two columns of Gothic-type verse flanking the image and the printer's imprint 'J. P. Himmer, Augsburg' at foot. |
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Kahla's second Leuchtenburg notgeld issue pulled double duty as local tourism propaganda — the Rudelsburg, a ruined medieval castle on the Saale some distance from Kahla itself, was a beloved destination for German nationalist student fraternities and hiking clubs throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Printing the ruin on emergency currency was less a monetary decision than a civic branding exercise during the inflationary chaos of 1921.
Himmer in Augsburg was a reliable provincial choice for small municipal notgeld commissions of this period, handling both the lithographic color work and the typography in-house.