Sparkasse Salem-Heiligenberg

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Logo of the savings banks  Sparkasse Salem-Heiligenberg
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Seat Salem
legal form Institute of public right
Bank code 690 517 25
BIC SOLA DES1 SAL
founding 1749
Association Sparkassenverband Baden-Württemberg
Website www.spk-salem.de
Business data 2019
Total assets 940.29 million euros
insoles 733.02 million euros
Customer credit 595.14 million euros
Employee 122
Offices 11
management
Board of Directors Manfred Härle, chairman
Board Ralf Bäuerle, chairman; Wolfgang Müller
List of savings banks in Germany

The Sparkasse Salem-Heiligenberg is the oldest savings bank in Germany, based in Salem , Baden-Württemberg . The business area of ​​the Sparkasse extends from Frickingen , Heiligenberg , Salem, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen , Deggenhausertal , Bermatingen to Immenstaad on Lake Constance .

organization structure

The Sparkasse Salem-Heiligenberg, based in Salem, is a non-profit institution under public law that is safe and secure .

The organs of Sparkasse Salem-Heiligenberg are the administrative board, the credit committee and the board of directors. The Board of Directors determines the guidelines for the business of the Sparkasse, issues business instructions for the Credit Committee and the Management Board and monitors their activities.

Business figures

Sparkasse Salem-Heiligenberg reported total assets of EUR 940.29 million in the 2019 financial year and customer deposits of EUR 733.02 million. According to the 2019 Sparkasse Ranking List, it ranks 318 in terms of total assets. It has 11 branches / self-service locations and employs 122 people.

history

The name of the Sparkasse Salem-Heiligenberg stands for the district savings bank Salem, which is the oldest savings bank in Germany from 1749, and the district savings bank Heiligenberg, which was also founded in the 18th century. Both institutes were merged on August 1, 1975 to form Sparkasse Salem-Heiligenberg, taking historical developments into account.

Abbot Anselm II, an abbot of the former Cistercian monastery of Salem who was also very active in economic matters , founded the “Ordinary Orphan Cashier” in 1749. This orphan's fund, which was under monastic administration, was transferred to the Grand Ducal Margravial Badische Orphan's fund in the course of secularization at the beginning of the 19th century.

Even if the orphans' funds were primarily concerned with the administration of the orphan's funds and not the idea of ​​saving, the concern for the assets and the effort to secure the funds for the future were already omnipresent. The transition from the first orphan funds to the actual savings banks through the acceptance and payment of interest on smaller savings deposits also from other depositors is therefore only an expression and result of the continuous expansion of this original idea.

The substantial surpluses generated by the fund were already being used for charitable purposes. In the year of price increases in 1817, for example, the poor in the Salem district office received a grant of 3,200 guilders. Ten years later, 220 guilders were distributed to those injured by bad weather. In particular, the Wespach poor house founded by the Salem Monastery received one-off and ongoing donations.

A milestone in the now 265 year history of the savings bank in Salem was the savings and loan bank, which is under municipal guarantee, and which was established in 1838. It was renamed by changing the statutes via the names "Spar-, Waisen- und Leihkasse" (1863) via "Spar- und Waisenkasse" (1882) to "Bezirkssparkasse Salem" (1927). The founding of the former district savings bank Heiligenberg in 1784 fell into a period that was known as the age of mass poverty. In 1780, the "Oberamtskanzlist" Judas Thaddäus Bainter, in his capacity as orphan biller, found considerable deficiencies in the administration of orphan's funds. In order to counteract this evil of abuse, he proposed to the Princely Government in Donaueschingen the establishment of an "orphan's cash register".

The Sparkassenstiftung

For the 250th anniversary in 1999, the Sparkasse Salem-Heiligenberg set up its own foundation . The foundation was at that time with an initial capital brought 350,000 DM to life and has grown to a total endowment of 2.0 million euros to date. Projects and measures in art, culture, monument preservation, sport and innovative services as well as in the promotion of talented and young people in the business area are funded from this. Among other things, the use of the foundation's income in 2005 for the shirt sponsorship of youth soccer teams resulted in the now annual Sparkasse Cup. Since 2011, the Sparkasse has been providing all first graders in the business area with reading guides every year.

literature

  • Harald Derschka : The Stiftsalemische orphanage of Abbot Anselms II from 1749 , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 118, 2000, pp. 87-95 ( digitized ).
  • Helmut Hahn: 225 years of District Savings Bank Salem. 1749-1974 . Printer at Fischmarkt, Konstanz 1974.

Web links

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: 47 ° 45 '59 "  N , 9 ° 17' 32.7"  E