Waldviertel Savings Bank
 Waldviertler Sparkasse Bank AG
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| Country |
 Austria
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| Seat | Sparkassenplatz 3, 3910 Zwettl |
| legal form | Corporation |
| Bank code | 20272 |
| BIC | SPZWAT21XXX |
| founding | 1856 |
| Association | Austrian Savings Bank Association |
| Website | www.wspk.at |
| Business data | |
| Offices | 32 |
| management | |
| Board | Franz Pruckner, Michael Hag |
| Supervisory board | Josef Preschitz (Chairman), Karl Schwarz (1st Deputy Chairman), Maximilian Igelsböck (2nd Deputy Chairman) |
| Corporate management |
Franz Pruckner |
| List of savings banks in Austria | |
The Waldviertler Sparkasse Bank AG is a Lower Austrian banking company based in Zwettl and part of the savings bank group in Austria . It was created in 1856 as a community savings bank. The Sparkasse is a member of the cooperation and liability association of the Austrian savings banks and the Austrian savings bank association .
Founding history
In 1850 Franz Haunsteiner was elected mayor of Zwettl. The mayor was convinced from the start that there should also be a savings bank in Zwettl. Just a few months after taking office, Haunsteiner wrote a “program for the establishment of a savings bank in the city of Zwettl in N.Ö.”, which he put under the motto “With God for prince and fatherland”.
His idea: to found an association whose members collect their money and have it administered by self-chosen bodies. The aim should be that this association "seeks to increase the smallest sums". At the same time, business people should have the chance to get loans “against the customary 5 percent, and not have to give themselves up to money usurers”. At the same time, Franz Haunsteiner created a list of the possible founding members and was the first to enter himself with a contribution of 50 guilders.
On April 3, 1851, the mayor applied for the establishment of a savings bank to the assembly of the Zwettler community council, which was unanimously accepted. This marked the beginning of a tough four year struggle against the imperial bureaucracy. On April 27, 1853, the Zwettler parish chancellery received a letter that completely ruled out the establishment of a savings bank association, but left the only option open for Zwettl to set up a community savings bank and required the submission of the relevant statutes. The people from Zwettler swallowed their anger, passed a new municipal council resolution and applied for the establishment of a municipal savings bank. But even the move to the new line of government did not speed things up. Since approval was still a long way off, Haunsteiner and his secretary Steininger traveled to Vienna in February 1855 to intervene personally. Yet another year passed. Then finally, on July 28, 1856, the Ministry of the Interior gave its approval. After renewed difficulties, authorization was granted on November 24, 1856 to open a savings bank in Zwettl. The first real banking day was January 2nd, 1857. In 2012, the Waldviertler Sparkasse von 1842 AG, Waidhofen / Thaya, merged with the Sparkasse Waldviertel-Mitte Bank AG, Zwettl. The entry in the commercial register was made on September 3, 2012.
Structural development of the main institute
Until 1870 the savings bank had its business premises in the municipal office. She bought this reality from the community at the end of June 1870 and a spatial separation was achieved through renovation work. In 1938 a house of their own was bought and a new savings bank building was built by 1940. In order to meet the increased requirements, a major renovation was carried out in 1965. In 1981 the counter hall was re-adapted. After the purchase of the neighboring former prison from the municipality of Zwettl, the Sparkasse building was rebuilt or rebuilt in three stages from 1992 to 1994: 1. Demolition of the old prison, construction of an underground car park and the office building above it, 2. Basement of the Sparkassenhof and its overbuilding, 3. Basement and conversion of the counter hall and the first floor. A further modernization of the customer area took place in summer 2009.
literature
- Festschrift 1994 accompanying the reconstruction of the main institute
- Festschrift "100 Years of Sparkasse"
- Festschrift "150 Years of Sparkasse"
- Business reports
- Savings Bank Handbook 2012
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b query for bank code 20272. In: SEPA payment transactions directory of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) . (Requires browser reloading.)
- ↑ http://www.waldviertelnews.at/detail.asp?showid=13782
Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '16.3 " N , 15 ° 10' 2.6" E