Credit box of the savings and aid association in Coburg

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The Creditkasse of the Spar- und Hülfevereins in Coburg was a Coburg bank that existed from 1856 to 1921 , had its headquarters at Steinweg 5 and its bank building from 1912, built according to a design by the Coburg city building councilor Max Böhme , as a monument in the Bavarian monument list stands.

history

In 1855 the savings and aid association in Coburg , which was founded in early 1844 by Coburg merchants, master craftsmen and self-employed, decided to open a second Coburg institute in competition with the municipal savings bank . As a result, the savings that exist at the savings and aid association and its branch institutions, such as the funeral fund for its members and the savings association for confirmation gifts and dowry , should be lent interest-bearing and the members of the savings and aid association and other people should have the opportunity to take out loans or secure funds to put on.

He presented the statutes to the ducal state government for the first time on January 26, 1856. An amended version followed on February 3, which was approved, and on March 1, 1856, the charitable Creditkasse of the savings and aid association in Coburg was founded. The savings and aid association was liable with all of its assets for the credit fund. To support the development phase, the savings company received a non-interest-bearing advance of 7,000 guilders from the ducal state treasury in the first 2.5 years in  exchange for the obligation to distribute cash instructions for the state treasury.

The bank moved into its first business premises on the first floor at Spitalgasse 3 until 1861; the first director was the judiciary Heinrich Emil Deyßing . In January 1861, the company Carl Kaufmanns Restauration und Brauerei, previously the Gasthof Zum Güldenen Adler, acquired at Steinweg 5 for 18,000 guilders and had the building converted for 10,000 guilders. On July 25, 1861, the bank moved to the first floor. The ground floor was initially rented to the Thurn and Taxis postal authority . A first expansion followed in 1902, until a representative new building was started as a replacement in 1911 and was completed in 1912.

On December 11, 1900, the State Ministry declared the Creditkasse to be suitable for the investment of ward money . In 1913 the bank had total assets of around 14.7 million marks.

Liability aspects, the necessary business expansion and high stocks of war bonds , which had not yet been sufficiently depreciated on the market values, caused the savings and aid association to sell the Creditkasse in 1921, with a balance sheet total of around 23 million marks at the time. There were offers from the Bayerische Staatsbank , the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank and the Stadtsparkasse Coburg. Despite a journalistic offensive by the director of the Sparkasse, Conrad Soergel, in the Coburger Zeitung against the major Munich banks, on August 15, 1921, at a general assembly of around 1,850 members of the savings and aid association, 510 voted for the best-endowed offer from the Bavarian State Bank , 91 opposed it. The takeover followed on January 1, 1922.

Bank building

Georgengasse facade, Badergasse on the left
Facade Steinweg
Main entrance

The three-storey corner house between Steinweg , Mohrenstrasse and Badergasse was built in late Art Nouveau forms with a hipped mansard roof based on a design by Max Böhme, the Coburg City Councilor. The architects Paul Schaarschmidt and Scheibe were in charge of the construction work. At the beginning of April 1912 the bank building with apartments on the upper floors was opened.

The long side with the main facade stands along Georgengasse, an important connection between the train station and the castle . The street front on the corner of Mohrenstrasse / Badergasse is characterized by a three-storey, five-sided bay window above an eagle cartouche with the name of the bank. The facade is structured in a three-dimensional manner, in particular through wide pilaster strips that stand in front of the window levels, and on the second floor through the changing arrangement of fielded, ornamented window parapets and flat balconies as well as the arrangement of mansard dormer windows in the axes of the upper floor windows. Zigzag ribbons frame the windows.

Although the Georgengasse slopes from east to west, the eastern half of the structure has a lower eaves than the slightly protruding western half . The height offset takes place next to the main entrance and results in an additional mezzanine in the western part, the facade of which consists of a bossed masonry , like the low base of the eastern section. Above is the ground floor, which is banded all around. The western half of the ground floor is characterized by large arched windows and a blend balustrade on the first floor, while the eastern half has rectangular windows in the axes of the upper floor windows. The main entrance, located in the middle, is characterized by a balcony that protrudes on three consoles with lion masks.

In the eastern Steinweg the facade is designed as a continuation of the western section. On the first floor there is also a central balcony with a balustrade on double lion mask consoles. A two-axis dwelling with a triangular gable forms the upper end. The short west facade in Badergasse has a simpler design. The four windows on the upper floors are grouped into groups of two, there are no balconies.

From 1922 the building was the seat of the Coburg branch of the Bayerische Staatsbank, which had a fundamental renovation carried out inside in 1957/58. After Bayerische Staatsbank AG was taken over by Bayerische Vereinsbank in 1971, it became the seat of the Vereinsbank, which in 1979 initiated extensive gutting and built an extension in Badergasse by 1981, the exterior design being adapted to the existing structure. In 1998, the branch of HypoVereinsbank was finally housed in the house after Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank and Bayerische Vereinsbank had merged. In 2008/2009 the property was again modernized.

literature

  • Burkhardt Quarck: Historical overview of the development of the credit fund of the savings and aid association. In: Memorandum to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Creditkasse of the savings and aid association in Coburg on March 1, 1906
  • Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government and Intelligence Gazette for the Duchy of Coburg February 27, 1856
  2. ^ Government Gazette for the Duchy of Coburg, December 19, 1900
  3. ^ Government Gazette for the Duchy of Coburg, April 25, 1914
  4. Frank Finzel, Michael Reinhart: Traces: 175 years of Sparkasse Coburg, main routes, secondary routes, wrong ways. Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-09-303832-4 , p. 230
  5. ^ Coburger Zeitung, December 30, 1921
  6. ^ Coburger Zeitung, April 10, 1912

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 37.6 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 53 ″  E