Sparkasse Saarbrücken

Sparkasse Saarbrücken
Headquarters in Saarbrücken, Neumarkt 17
Country	Germany
Seat	Neumarkt 17 66117 Saarbrücken
legal form	Institute of public right
Bank code	590 501 01
BIC	SAKS DE55 XXX
founding	June 1, 1984
Association	Savings Bank Association Saar
Website	www.sparkasse-saarbruecken.de
Business data 2019
Total assets	8.066 billion euros
insoles	5.225 billion euros
Customer credit	5.441 billion euros
Employee	1,227
Offices	70
management
Board of Directors	Uwe Conradt (Chairman) Peter Gillo (Deputy Chairman)
Board	Hans-Werner Sander (Chairman) Uwe Kuntz Uwe Johmann Frank Saar
List of savings banks in Germany

The Sparkasse Saarbrücken is the largest savings bank in Saarland and is based in the state capital Saarbrücken . It is an institution under public law and was created on June 1, 1984 from the merger of the Kreissparkasse and the Stadtsparkasse Saarbrücken. On January 1, 2017, the Stadtsparkasse Völklingen was also taken over.

organization structure

The business area of ​​the Sparkasse Saarbrücken includes the Saarbrücken regional association . The Sparkasse is run by the Sparkassenzweckverband Saarbrücken, a municipal association set up for this purpose , to which the Saarbrücken regional association as well as the cities of Saarbrücken and Völklingen belong. The legal basis is the Savings Bank Act for Saarland and the Sparkasse's statutes. The organs of the Sparkasse are the administrative board and the executive board . At the head of the board of directors, the regional association director and the mayor of Saarbrücken take turns on May 1st every year.

The Sparkasse Saarbrücken is a member of the Savings Bank Association Saar and through this also in the German Savings Banks and Giro Association .

Business figures

In the 2019 financial year, Sparkasse Saarbrücken reported total assets of EUR 8.066 billion and customer deposits of EUR 5.225 billion. According to the 2019 Sparkasse Ranking List, it ranks 30th in terms of total assets. It has 70 branches / self-service locations and employs 1,227 people.

Savings Banks Finance Group

The Sparkasse Saarbrücken is part of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe and thus also belongs to its liability association. He secures the existence of the institutes and ensures that they can meet all liabilities even in the event of individual savings banks becoming insolvent . The Sparkasse arranges home loan and savings contracts from the regional building society , open investment funds from Deka and insurance from Saarland Versicherung . In the area of leasing , Sparkasse Saarbrücken works together with Deutsche Leasing . The Landesbank Saar performs the function of the Sparkasse central bank .

history

The Sparkasse Saarbrücken originated from three independent institutes: First, on June 1, 1984, the Kreissparkasse Saarbrücken merged with the Stadtsparkasse Saarbrücken, before the Stadtsparkasse Völklingen was taken over on January 1, 2017 .

Kreissparkasse Saarbrücken

Before the districts were advised to set up their own savings banks in the Prussian circular decree of July 14, 1854, two attempts to establish their own savings bank failed in the Saarbrücken district: one in 1833 by the then mayor Heinrich Böcking and one in 1849 The concept presented by the citizens of Saarbrücken did not convince the local politicians.

On March 23, 1858, the Kreissparkasse began operations in the district office on Saarbrücken Castle Square. A five-person board of trustees chaired the Saarbrücken District Administrator Franz Carl von Gaertner was responsible for overseeing the Sparkasse. The first head of the Sparkasse, the so-called Rendant, was Carl Woytt. The duties of the manager included the activity as managing director as well as reporting on business developments to the board of trustees. The statutes stipulated that so-called collection points (comparable to today's branches) could be set up in the mayor's offices of the district.

The first district agencies were opened on June 1, 1888, more than 30 years after the Sparkasse was founded, in communities with more than 2000 inhabitants. In particular, these were Bischmisheim , Dudweiler , Gersweiler , Heusweiler , Kleinblittersdorf , Ludweiler , Püttlingen , Riegelsberg , Sulzbach and Völklingen . The district agencies were, however, only collective funds for the savings business, loans were still granted centrally.

On March 11, 1908, the Check Act and the granting of passive check ability to the Sparkasse created the prerequisites for check transactions and the savings banks' cashless payment system. With the introduction of current account and current account transactions, the business activities of the Sparkasse expanded further. When the First World War broke out , the Sparkasse Saarbrücken was the largest institute in the Trier administrative district and in the Bavarian Rhine Palatinate.

As a result of the regional reform in the Saarland, the sponsorship of the Kreissparkasse was transferred from the district to the Saarbrücken city association on January 1, 1974.

Stadtsparkasse Saarbrücken

After the unification of the previously independent cities of Alt-Saarbrücken, St. Johann and Malstatt-Burbach in 1909, a joint institute became necessary. On April 1 of the same year, the St. Johanner savings and loan bank merged with the Sparkasse Malstatt-Burbach to form the Sparkasse of the City of Saarbrücken. The business premises of the Stadtsparkasse were initially in the St. Johann town hall until the move to a separate building on Saarbrücken town hall square in 1930. Before the Second World War there were twelve main branches, ten full-time managed branches and 18 part-time managed branches.

Germany's first car branch was opened on Richard-Wagner-Strasse in 1957. Customers could do their banking at a cash desk while they were in their car.

On April 22, 1983, the Saarbrücken savings banks association replaced the state capital Saarbrücken as guarantor of the Saarbrücken city savings bank.

Sparkasse Saarbrücken

The Savings Bank Association Saarbrücken, founded on April 27, 1982, had the task of merging the two Saarbrücken savings banks. This project became necessary due to the regional reform of 1974, as the business areas of the two savings banks overlapped.

On June 1, 1984, the Kreissparkasse and the Stadtsparkasse merged to form Sparkasse Saarbrücken. After the merger was completed, Sparkasse Saarbrücken was represented in its business area with 98 branches, which were divided into ten branch offices. Four years later, the branch offices were replaced by eight sub-markets, which were largely adapted to the layout of the local authorities.

Building history of the main office

First, the main office of the Sparkasse was in the old town hall on Schlossplatz. By choosing a new rendition, the Sparkasse moved to his house in Schlossstrasse 68 in 1865 and, eleven years later, to a newly built house in Eisenbahnstrasse. The main office stayed there permanently, as business life shifted more and more to the area around Eisenbahnstraße with the construction of the Luisenbrücke. Around 10 years later, the house on Eisenbahnstrasse turned out to be too small and was gradually expanded. First of all, the old building was rebuilt in 1889, then in 1895 the house on Richtstrasse 3 was bought and prepared according to the requirements.

In the 1920s, plans were made to rebuild and expand the main office, for which the neighboring buildings Gutenbergstrasse 3 (1922) and Gutenbergstrasse 1 (1928) were acquired. These two houses were demolished in November 1929 in favor of a new building, into which the old cash building was also integrated. The Kreissparkasse was finally able to move into the new premises in March 1931.

During the Second World War , the headquarters building was largely destroyed by five direct hits from artillery, among other things. After the end of the war there was initially no possibility of continuing the cash desk operations at the original location. Only gradually was the building cleared of rubble and poorly repaired. The last war damage was repaired in 1949 when the main office was increased. In the following years, the Sparkasse bought some houses in the Eisenbahnstrasse and Hohenzollernstrasse in view of the necessary expansion.

Sparkasse am Neumarkt

In 1955, the Board of Directors of the Kreissparkasse decided to convert and expand the main office on Neumarkt . The extension was completed three years later, with the old buildings being preserved in a modernized form. With the construction of the city ​​motorway in 1960, the main entrance of the ticket hall, which had only recently been relocated to Hohenzollernstrasse, was cut off from traffic. In the 1970s, the last piece of land on the site of today's main office was acquired and all the houses on Eisenbahnstrasse were demolished to make space for a parking lot.

In the course of the merger of the two savings banks, the property on Neumarkt retained its status as the institute's main office and it became necessary to enlarge the building one more time. The project included a redesign of the entire block around Hohenzollern-, Rechts-, Gutenberg- and Eisenbahnstraße, whereby the basic structures of the old building were preserved, but the Richtstraße was built over. In November 1989, work began on the extension, which was completed in October 1991. This was followed in 1994 by the redesign of the facade on Gutenbergstrasse, in 1996 the rebuilding of the ticket hall and in 1997 the opening of a new multi-storey car park with 140 parking spaces. In addition, the clock on the roof of the headquarters was replaced.

literature

• Paul Thomes: Right where you are at home . ISBN 978-3-00-024209-0 .
• Paul Thomes: The Kreissparkasse Saarbrücken (1854-1914) . ISBN 3-7819-0324-9 .
• Literature on Sparkasse Saarbrücken in the Saarland Bibliography

See also

• List of savings banks in Germany

Web links

• Official website
• History of the Sparkasse Saarbrücken
• Sparkasse Saarbrücken in the company database of BaFin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Master data of the credit institute at the Deutsche Bundesbank
2. ↑ Sparkasse Ranking List 2019 (PDF; 199 kB, 9 pages) In: Finanzgruppe Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband. DSGV.de, May 4, 2020, accessed on May 4, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Sparkasse Ranking List 2019 (PDF; 199 kB, 9 pages) In: Finanzgruppe Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband. DSGV.de, May 4, 2020, accessed on May 4, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 5.3 "  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 22.7"  E