Royal Main Bank

The Königliche Hauptbank was located on Jägerstrasse in Berlin, in the immediate vicinity of the Alte Münze on Werderscher Markt . Detail from a Berlin city map from 1847.

The hunter's house in 1690, by Johann Stridbeck the Younger

View of the Royal Main Bank at Jägerstrasse 34–35 in Berlin. Unknown graphic artist, around 1850.

The Royal Head Bank was from 1765 to 1846 in fact, the central bank of Prussia .

function

On June 17, 1765 founded Friedrich II. The Royal Giro and Lehnbank and gave her on October 29, 1766 to banknotes the right to emit . When the bank was founded, a Prussian bank note was minted as the main deposit coin , which was intended to facilitate trade with foreign countries.

On January 1, 1847, the purely state-owned financial institution, which had meanwhile been renamed the Königliche Hauptbank, was transferred to the Prussian Bank , to which private investors could also contribute share capital.

Location

The Königliche Hauptbank was housed in the Berlin Jägerstrasse 34-35 in the Friedrichswerder district in a building that had been built by the architect Johann Arnold Nering in 1690 as a residence for the chief hunter from Brandenburg (see illustration). The building was two stories high. In the early days, the various offices of the Royal Main Bank were only on the ground floor. Around 1786, the upper building department and the main timber and firewood administration met on the upper floor .

In 1869–1876, the architect Friedrich Hitzig built a new building on the same site, which became the headquarters of the Reichsbank .

literature

Kertbeny: Berlin as it is. Publishing house Natorff & Comp., Berlin 1831.
Friedrich Nicolai : Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam, all the peculiarities located there, and the surrounding area. (4 volumes). Berlin 1786.
Marcus von Niebuhr: History of the Royal Bank in Berlin: from the foundation of the same (1765) to the end of 1845; from official sources . Publishing house of Decker's Secret Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei, Berlin 1854. Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

↑ On the business of the Königliche Hauptbank also the detailed explanations from Friedrich Nicolai: Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam, all peculiarities located there, and the surrounding area. Berlin 1786, Vol. 2, pp. 452-456; as well as with Kertbeny: Berlin as it is. Verlag Natorff & Comp., Berlin 1831, p. 221.
^ Friedrich Nicolai: Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam, of all the peculiarities located there, and the surrounding area. Berlin 1786, vol. 1, p. 156.

[1] On the business of the Königliche Hauptbank also the detailed explanations from Friedrich Nicolai: Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam, all peculiarities located there, and the surrounding area. Berlin 1786, Vol. 2, pp. 452-456; as well as with Kertbeny: Berlin as it is. Verlag Natorff & Comp., Berlin 1831, p. 221.

[2] Friedrich Nicolai: Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam, of all the peculiarities located there, and the surrounding area. Berlin 1786, vol. 1, p. 156.