State: State: Germany, Weimar Republic
Issuer: Magistrat der Stadtgemeinde Danzig
Location of issue: Danzig
Date of issue: 15.04.1919 AD.,
Value: 50 Pfennig
Size: 89 x 71 mm
Material: paper
Watermark: Zickzacklinien
Serial : -
Serial no. : 686699 *
Signatures: Sahm , ? (2)
Printer:
Obv.: 50 Pfennig / Notgeld der Stadtgemeinde Danzig / Danzig d. 15. April 1919 / …. , brown and violet color design, red serial, embossed city seal at right.
Rev.: Notgeld der Stadtgemeinde Danzig / Fünfzig Pfennig / 50 / Dieser Notgeldschein …. , the historic city centre with Lutheran Supreme Parish Church of St. Mary's in Danzig's Rechtstadt quarter.
References: World Paper Money P-11 ; Grabowski D3.3 ; Tieste 1290.05.15 .
Gdańsk (Kashubian: Gduńsk; German: Danzig) is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland.
The city's history is complex, with periods of Polish, Prussian and German rule, and periods of autonomy or self-rule as a free city state. In the early-modern age, Gdańsk was a royal city of Poland. It was considered the wealthiest and the largest city of Poland, before the 18th century rapid growth of Warsaw. In the late Middle Ages it was an important seaport and shipbuilding town and, in the 14th and 15th centuries, a member of the Hanseatic League.
In 1815, after France's defeat in the Napoleonic Wars, it again became part of Prussia and became the capital of Regierungsbezirk Danzig within the province of West Prussia. With the unification of Germany in 1871 under Prussian hegemony, the city became part of the German Empire and remained so until 1919, after Germany's defeat in World War I. The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 towns and villages in the surrounding areas. It was created on 15 November 1920 in accordance with the terms of Article 100 (Section XI of Part III) of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I.
In the interwar period, owing to its multi-ethnic make-up and history, Gdańsk lay in a disputed region between Poland and Germany, which became known as the Polish Corridor. The city's ambiguous political status was exploited by Germany, furthering tension between the two countries, which would ultimately culminate in the Invasion of Poland and the first clash of the Second World War just outside the city limits, followed by the ethnic cleansing and executions of Polish population and ultimately flight and expulsion of the German-speaking majority of the city's population in 1945.
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