Galician Savings Bank
The Galizische Sparkasse (Polish: Galicyjska Kasa Oszczędności ) was a savings bank based in Lemberg .
history
The Galizische Sparkasse was founded on January 1st, 1843 as the 13th Sparkasse in the Austrian Empire . Co-founder was Nathan Löwenstein from Opoka . Leon Sapieha , the director of the Landeskreditanstalt (Towarzystwo Kredytowe Ziemskie) founded in 1841, was also the driving force behind the establishment of the Sparkasse. In May 1843 a ten-member preparatory committee was set up under the magistrate's accountant Benedykt Gregorowitcz. This created the conditions for the opening of the first Galician savings bank.
Following the example of the Galizische Sparkasse, further savings banks were founded in Galicia in the following decades. In 1873 there were 12 savings banks with deposits of slightly more than 10 million guilders , of which 6 million guilders went to the Galizische Sparkasse.
In 1938 the Sparkasse was merged into the Centralna Małopolska Kasa Oszczędności we Lwowie .
Buildings in Lviv
Until 1891, the Galizische Sparkasse had its seat at ul. Majerowska 2. In 1891 it was moved to a new representative building at the intersection of Jagiellońska and Karola Ludwika Streets (Legionów Street in the interwar period).
The new savings bank building in Lviv was built in the years 1889–1891 on the site of the former Hotel Polski according to a design by Prof. Dr. Julian Zachariewicz built. On the striking dome there is a sculpture by Leonardo Marconi "Oszczędność" ("Thrift") as an allegory of the economic progress of Galicia. Today the building is the seat of the Museum of Ethnography and Applied Arts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Constantin Schmid, Hermann Brämer, Karl Brämer: Das Sparkassenwesen, 1863, p. 22, digitized
- ↑ Isabel Röskau-Rydel: Culture on the periphery of the Habsburg Empire: the history of education and cultural institutions in Lemberg from 1772 to 1848, 1993, ISBN 978-3-447-03423-4 , pp. 55, 56, digitized
- ↑ Karl Andree: Geography of World Trade: Bd., 1st half. Europe. Arranged by H. Glogau, J. Minoprio, Lorenz Brauer, M. Haushofer, Jos. Fisherman. 1877; Library of all commercial sciences; Volume 3, edition 1, part 2 of Geography of World Trade: With historical explanations, 1877, p. 1155, digitized
- ↑ Ustawa z dnia 9 kwietnia 1938 r. o przekształceniu Galicyjskiej Kasy Oszczędności we Lwowie w Centralną Małopolską Kasę Oszczędności we Lwowie.
- ↑ Muzeum Etnografii i Przemysłu Artystycznego [dostęp 14.XI.2010]
- ↑ Lwów. Ilustrowany przewodnik , Wydawnictwo Centrum Europy, Lwów-Wrocław 2003, s. 245