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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Kreisstadt Leobschütz |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-pink ground printed in dark brown, the upper portion filled with dense Gothic-script text giving the historical and civic description of Leobschütz. To the upper left, a vignette of the city's heraldic monument — a winged allegorical figure surmounting a pedestal bearing the civic coat of arms and the inscription 'Leobschütz' — stands above a panoramic silhouette of the town's skyline with its characteristic church spires. The lower register is divided into three bordered panels: the outer two each bearing '10 Pfennig' in bold type, while the central panel carries a Goethe quotation in Fraktur script. |
| Reverse lettering | Erste urkundl. Erwähnung 1107 Glubcice. Seit Ende 12. Jahrhunderts Stadt mit deutschem Recht. 1268 Hlubschicz, 1270 Lübschütz, seit 1559 Leobschütz. Gegenwärtig über 13 000 Einwohner, mit schönen Promenaden an der Zinna gelegen. Eisenbahnknotenpunkt, Postdirektion, Gymnasium, Lyceum, Lehrerseminar, Präparandie, Höhere Mädchenschule, Landwirtschaftl. Winterschule, Kaufm. und gewerbl. Fortbildungsschule. 4 Kath., 1 evgl. Kirche und 1 Synagoge. Ein 1448 gegr. Franziskanerkloster. Landratsamt, Amtsgericht, Finanzamt, Zollamt. Alte Garnisonstadt. Altertumsmuseum mit wertvollen Urkunden usw. Städt. Gas- u. Wasserwerk. Kanalisation. Hochstehende Textilindustrie. Kreisstadt eines landwirtschaftl. hochstehenden Kreises mit recht fruchtbarem Acker- u. Gartenland. Neben vielen anderen schönen Ausflugsorten der geg. 4 Km. von der Stadt entferntliegende, 1265 von König Ottokar II. der Stadt geschenkte 4000 Morgen große, herrliche Leobschützer Stadtforst, bequem zu Fuß und auch mit der Eisenbahn erreichbar, mit verschiedenen Erholungsstätten. Bodenreformerische Stadt mit großen Kämmereigütern und ausgedehntem eigenen Bauland. Weitere Auskünfte erteilt der Magistrat. Leobschütz. 10 Pfennig Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es, um es zu besitzen. 10 Pfennig |
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Leobschütz — now Głubczyce in southwestern Poland — issued this Notgeld through its Kreisstadt magistrate during the municipal emergency currency wave that swept German and Austrian towns between 1916 and the early 1920s. Flemming & Wiskott of Glogau were among the more prolific small-denomination printers of the period, handling municipal contracts across Silesia when the Reichsbank could no longer keep low-denomination coinage in practical circulation.
The town itself sits close to the Czech border in what was then contested Upper Silesia, a region subject to the 1921 plebiscite that ultimately split the area between Germany and Poland. Whether this note circulated before or during that political turbulence affects its story considerably.