District Savings Bank Eppingen
The District Savings Bank Eppingen was an independent savings bank in Eppingen from 1840 to 2001 . It was one of the first savings banks in what is now Baden-Württemberg .
Historical background
The orphan funds were the forerunners of the Baden savings banks. They were founded to create secure investment opportunities for ward money . Guardians and asset managers should also be given assistance in exercising the duties required by guardianship. At the beginning of the 19th century, cities and municipalities founded savings banks, often affiliated to the municipal pawnshops. Savings banks were initially set up in larger cities such as Karlsruhe (1813), Mannheim (1822), Freiburg (1826), Heidelberg (1831) and Pforzheim (1834).
founding
The Grand Duke of Baden's Ministry of the Interior issued a circular at the beginning of 1840 asking the municipalities to set up savings banks. Therefore, the head of the Eppingen District Office, Oberamtmann Anton Ortallo, took the initiative and invited to a meeting on March 15, 1840 to discuss the draft statutes of the newly founded Sparkasse. The following were invited: Wilhelm ( Privy Councilor ), legal trainee Eppinger, Dean Gaa (Protestant pastor), Mayor Hochstetter and the members of the local council. A committee was elected to prepare the founding meeting, which took place on Sunday, March 29, 1840. From this inaugural meeting, at which 83 people from the district were present, the members of the administrative council (Oberamtmann Ortallo, Assessor Ruth, Dean Rupp, Mayor Hochstetter, legal trainee Eppinger, old master Gebhardt) and the committee (councilor Raußmüller, Wilhelm, councilor Wittmann, Land surgeon Niebergell, Färber Preusch, local councilor Gebhard) elected.
On March 31 of the same year, the two committees appointed Assessor Ruth to the board, legal trainee Eppinger to the first secretary and official auditor Scholderer to the Sparkasse's computer. After the state approval had been granted, the shop opened on June 21, 1840 in the apartment of the calculator Scholderer. The name of this association savings bank was Sparcasse in the Eppingen district office .
Another story
From January 1, 1892, the city of Eppingen took over the community guarantee and thus the sponsorship of the Sparkasse. The Vereinssparkasse became a municipal savings bank. The club members were paid out, and the future distributed profits were used for charitable purposes. On January 1, 1935, the bank was renamed Sparkassen-Gesellschaft des Eppingen District , and the following municipalities acted as guarantors for the Sparkasse: Eppingen, Adelshofen , Berwangen , Gemmingen , Ittlingen , Richen , Rohrbach am Gießhübel , Stebbach and Schluchtern . In 1937/38 the municipalities Sulzfeld , Mühlbach , Elsenz , Landshausen and Tiefenbach joined .
In 1875 the first full-time computer Goswin Weigand was discontinued, and Heinrich Müller became his successor in 1911. The increase in business activity required its own business premises. In 1892 the Sparkasse got rooms in the Eppinger Rathaus, and in 1925 the bank moved into a villa at Ludwig-Zorn-Straße 10. In 1932 the first branch was opened in Sulzfeld.
Eppingen synagogue
The Jewish community of Eppingen - its members emigrated because of National Socialist discrimination or moved to larger cities - sold their synagogue at Kaiserstraße 6 to the district savings bank behind it on October 26, 1938 . Nevertheless, during the November pogroms on November 10, 1938, the Eppingen synagogue was desecrated and partly destroyed by fire. In 1940 it was completely demolished and in 1956 the new Sparkasse headquarters was built in the same place, which was located there until 1983.
Time after 1945
The branch network was gradually expanded and included 11 branches in the following communities: Adelshofen, Berwangen, Elsenz, Gemmingen, Ittlingen, Kirchardt, Mühlbach, Rohrbach am Gießhübel, Stebbach and Sulzfeld. In 1983 the post-war building on Kaiserstraße was sold and the new building at Bahnhofstraße 5 was moved into. 2002 took place fusion of Bezirkssparkasse Eppingen with the Kreissparkasse Heilbronn .
business development
- 1890: 2,825 depositors with 1,965,235 marks
- 1900: 3,307 depositors with 3,144,787 marks
- 1914: 4,399 deposits with 7,084,616 marks
- 1918: 5,657 deposits with 9,083,801 marks
Conversion to the Reichsmark on January 1, 1924
- 1924: 258 deposits with 91,603 Reichsmarks
- 1926: 1,373 deposits with 679,237 Reichsmarks
- 1930: 2,732 deposits with 1,946,621 Reichsmarks
- 1935: 5,248 deposits with 3,349,825 Reichsmarks
- 1940: 6 525 deposits with 5,144,267 Reichsmarks
- 1944: 7,910 depositors with 14,139,358 Reichsmarks
Conversion to the D-Mark on June 21, 1948
- 1949: 6 075 savings accounts with 1,199,975 DM
- 1960: 8 154 savings accounts with 6,720,552 DM
- 1970: 11,958 savings accounts with 22,267,065 DM
- 1980: 17,440 savings accounts with 70,939,304 DM
Chair of the Board of Directors
- 1840–1841 Maximilian Ruth (Grand Ducal Official Assessor)
- 1841–1876 Wilhelm (Privy Councilor)
- 1876–1879 Karl Friedrich Bucherer (Grand Ducal Court Notary)
- 1879–1883 Brecht (Grand Ducal Senior Magistrate)
- 1883–1888 Adam Gebhard (pensioner)
- 1888–1891 Weißmann (Grand Ducal Chief Forester)
- 1892–1894 Heinrich Schmelcher (Mayor)
- 1895–1903 Philipp Vielhauer (Mayor)
- 1903–1933 Albert Wirth (Mayor)
- 1933–1936 Karl Doll (Mayor)
- 1937–1945 Karl Zutavern (Mayor)
- 1945–1948 Jakob Dörr (Mayor)
- 1948–1966 Karl Thomä (Mayor)
- 1966–1979 Rüdiger Peuckert (Mayor)
- 1980–2001 Erich Pretz (Mayor)
Calculator, manager or board
- 1840–1845 Scholderer (Grand Ducal Official Auditor)
- 1845–1862 Niebergall (Grand Ducal Office Surgeon)
- 1862–1875 Johann Bickel ( tax equator )
- 1875–1911 Goswin Weigand (savings bank calculator)
- 1911–1931 Heinrich Müller (savings bank calculator)
- 1931–1969 Philipp Schmid (Sparkasse Director)
- 1970–1990 Herbert Goll and Friedhelm May (Sparkasse directors)
- 1991 until the merger with Kreissparkasse Heilbronn on January 1st, 2002: Friedhelm May and Roland Klingenfuß (Sparkasse directors)
literature
- Eppingen 1840-1990. 150 years of Sparkasse Eppingen. Sparkasse Eppingen, Eppingen 1990.
- Edmund Kiehnle: The Jews in Eppingen and their cult buildings. In: Rund um den Ottilienberg, Volume 3. Eppingen 1985, pages 146-170.
