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1 Mark Stadtsparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bolkenhain |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Woodcut-style vignette across the centre of the note presenting a panoramic townscape of Bolkenhain in Silesia, with the hilltop castle ruins rising above the town rooftops and church spires; the engraver's name HÄNDKE appears at lower right of the vignette. Flanking the central scene are full-length figures of a male saint at left and a draped female allegorical figure at right, each set within vertical ruled panels with ornamental guilloche cartouches at their bases. Below the vignette, the denomination text and the municipal coat of arms are set between the payment obligation text, with the issuer's name in a banner at the top of the note and the printer's imprint FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A.-G. GLOGAU at the very foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | BURG-SCHWEINHAUS BOLKOBURG Ihr schaut Euch an seit fernsten Tagen verwandt durch Leiden und Geschicke Es weben zwischen Euch die Sagen ein Band und eine Märchenbrücke. 1 M D R G M 795679 |
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Bolkenhain was a small textile town in Silesia — now Bolków, Poland — and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, its local savings bank issued notgeld during the currency chaos of the early Weimar period. Carl Flemming & Wiskott at Glogau was the dominant regional printer for Silesian emergency money, handling enormous volumes of these small-denomination notes for towns that could not access central bank currency in usable quantities.
The designer credit to Händke is unusual enough to note — most notgeld of this class went unsigned.