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Notgeld Landau 1923
This page contains Notgeld banknotes that were issued in 1923 by the municipalities of Landau. Landau is an autonomous (kreisfrei) city surrounded in the district Südliche Weinstraße ("southern wineroute") in the south of the German state Rhineland-Palatinate. The town is located in the historic Pfalz and has a population of about 42,000.
Landau is a university town (since 1990), a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping town, surrounded by vineyards and wine-growing villages. Landau lies east of the Pfälzer Wald, Europe's largest contiguous forest.History of LandauLandau was first mentioned as a settlement in 1106. The city was granted a charter in 1274 by Rudolf I von Habsburg, King of Germany, who declared the city an Imperial Free City in 1291. Nevertheless the bishop of Speyer, a major landowner in the district, seized the city in 1324. The city did not regain its ancient rights until 1511, through the offices of Maximilian I.
Landau was later occupied by the French from 1680 to 1815, when it was one of the Decapole, the ten free cities of Alsace, and received its modern fortifications by Louis XIV's military architect Vauban, 1688–99, making the little city (population in 1789 was still only approximately 5,000) one of Europe's strongest citadels. After Napoleon's Hundred Days following his escape from Elba, Landau, which had remained French, was granted to Bavaria in 1816 and became the capital of one of the thirteen Bezirksämter (counties) of the Bavarian Rheinpfalz. Following World War II, Landau was an important barracks city for the French occupation.
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100,000 Mark
This note was issued by Stadt Landau (Town Landau).
It is dated 1 August 1923.
500,000 Mark
This note was issued by Stadt Landau (Town Landau).
It is dated 1 August 1923.
1 Million Mark
This note was issued by Stadt Landau (Town Landau).
It is dated 1 August 1923.
5 Million Mark
This note was issued by Stadt Landau (Town Landau).
It is dated 1 August 1923.
1 Million Mark
This note was issued by Stadt Landau (Town Landau).
It is dated 1 September 1923.
5 Million Mark
This note was issued by Stadt Landau (Town Landau).
It is dated 1 September 1923.
10 Million Mark
This note was issued by Stadt Landau (Town Landau).
It is dated 1 September 1923.
200 Million Mark
This note was issued by Stadt Landau (Town Landau).
It is dated 1 September 1923.
100 Million Mark
This note was issued by Stadt Landau (Town Landau).
It is dated 20 September 1923.
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