Types / 1921
50 Pfennig, Stadt Freiburg in Schlesien, 1921 (valley)
Notgeld der Stadt Freiburg i. Schles.
What was happening
By 1921 Notgeld had turned from wartime necessity into a collectors' market. Towns, firms and clubs commissioned lithographed Serienscheine - sets printed far beyond local need and illustrated with whatever a place was proud of.
Freiburg in Schlesien - today Świebodzice in south-western Poland - is a small Lower Silesian cloth and weaving town below Schloss Fürstenstein (Książ), set in the hilly country at the foot of the Waldenburg (Wałbrzych) uplands. Its 50-Pfennig notes share a front showing the two-towered town skyline, while each back carries a scene with a motto. The set was printed by Grube & Schneider of Freiburg in September 1921.
The back of this note shows a valley landscape with a distant town, under the motto Wohlauf die Luft geht frisch und rein ("up and away, the air is fresh and pure") - a line evoking the walking country around Freiburg and Fürstenstein. Its sister notes are [[notgeld-freiburg-schlesien-50-pfennig-burg-eingang]], [[notgeld-freiburg-schlesien-50-pfennig-fuerstenstein]] and [[notgeld-freiburg-schlesien-50-pfennig-burghof]].
