75 Pfennig, Stadt Landsberg in Oberschlesien, 1921 (town view)

By 1921 Notgeld had turned from wartime necessity into a collectors' market, and towns put out illustrated sets printed far beyond any local need. In Upper Silesia that year the paper also carried politics.

Landsberg in Oberschlesien - today Gorzów Śląski in southern Poland - is a small town in the Olesno (Rosenberg) district, first mentioned in 1241, whose leaping-stag seal (Stadt Landsberg O/S 1241) appears on the front of these notes. After the First World War the Treaty of Versailles assigned the future of Upper Silesia, an ethnically mixed region of Poles and Germans, to a plebiscite. In the vote of 20 March 1921 the region as a whole returned a German majority, though many districts to the south-east voted Polish; the disputed result was followed by the Third Silesian Uprising in May 1921, when Polish insurgents took up arms to press for union with Poland and German paramilitary self-defence units resisted them. Landsberg's notes were issued in that charged spring (dated 24 May 1921) and carry the line Befreiung v. d. polnisch. Insurgent. - the town's own commemoration of its defence against, or relief from, the Polish insurgents. The wording reflects the German municipality's point of view at the time.

This 75-Pfennig note shows a red street-and-building view of the town on the back, captioned Notgeld der Stadt Landsberg Oberschlesien. Its companions are [[notgeld-landsberg-oberschlesien-75-pfennig-insurgenten]] and [[notgeld-landsberg-oberschlesien-50-pfennig]].