Reichsbank: Difference between revisions

In Prussia, the Reichsbank kept the branches it inherited from the [[Bank of Prussia]], including buildings it had purchased from others (e.g. the palace erected by {{ill|David Schindelmeißer|de}} in [[Königsberg]], acquired in 1843) and those it had built for itself (e.g. in [[Bromberg]] in 1864). Elsewhere, it did not take over the properties of banks whose monetary role it replaced, and erected new branch buildings instead. By the end of the 19th century, it had newly built branches in most of Germany's significant cities. In some cases, these branches were replaced by more modern ones in the interwar period.

 

 

Due to Germany's territorial losses following [[World War I]], the former Reichsbank branches in what became the [[Second Polish Republic]] were taken over by [[Bank Polski]], and the one in the [[Free City of Danzig]] became the {{ill|Bank of Danzig|de|Bank von Danzig}}. During [[World War II]], a number of branches were destroyed and not subsequently rebuilt. The one in [[Munich]], whose construction had started in 1938 on the site of the former [[Herzog-Max-Palais]] demolished that year, was only completed in 1951.<ref>{{cite web |website=Munich Art To Go |title=Das Herzog-Max-Palais: Ein Abriss zugunsten der „Hauptstadt der Deutschen Kunst |author=Thomas Müller |url=https://municharttogo.zikg.eu/items/show/59 }}</ref> Following the disappearance of the Reichsbank in 1945, a number of its former branches were taken over by its successor entities, namely the [[Deutsche Bundesbank]] in [[West Germany]], the [[Staatsbank der DDR]] in [[East Germany]], and the [[National Bank of Poland]] in [[Poland]]; some in East Germany were demolished later on, such as the [[Chemnitz]] branch in 1964.<ref>{{cite web |website=chemnitz-gestern-heute.de |title=Reichsbank – Hier ist ihr Geld sicher |url=https://chemnitz-gestern-heute.de/reichsbank-hier-ist-ihr-geld-sicher/ }}</ref> Many other branches have been repurposed for other uses over the years, such as the [[Bucerius Kunst Forum]] in [[Hamburg]] or the {{ill|Dommuseum Ottonianum|de|Dommuseum Ottonianum Magdeburg}} in [[Magdeburg]].

 

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File:Former Reichsbank building Wroclaw.png|Breslau (now [[Wrocław]]) branch, 10 Wolności Square, completed 1890<ref>{{cite web |website=wyborcza.pl |title=AC Hotel by Marriott powstanie w gmachu dawnego Banku Rzeszy |date={{date|2015/12/11}} |url=https://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,95327,19327611,ac-hotel-by-marriott-powstanie-w-gmachu-dawnego-banku-rzeszy.html |author=Jacek Kulesza}}</ref>

File:Bdg ulJagiellonska 4 10-2013.jpg|Bromberg (now [[Bydgoszcz]]) [[National Bank of Poland Building, Bydgoszcz|branch]], Jagiellońska street 8 (arch. {{ill|Hermann Cuno|de}}), completed 1864

File:Deutsche Bank Köln - ehemals Reichsbank (3932-34).jpg|The same building in 2009, following damage in World War II<ref>{{cite web |website=Rheinische Industriekultur |url=https://www.rheinische-industriekultur.com/seiten/objekte/orte/koeln/objekte/bankenviertel.html |author=Walter Buschmann and Alexander Kierdorf |title=Bankenviertel Köln }}</ref>

File:Bank of Danzig former building.JPG|The same building in 2010

File:Darmstadt-Ehem-Reichsbank.jpg|[[Darmstadt]] {{ill|Reichsbank branch in Darmstadt{{!}}branch|de|Ehemaliges Reichsbankgebäude (Darmstadt)}}, Kasinostraße 5 (arch. Curjel and Moser), completed 1904

File:ESA Karl-Marx-Str 53 Bild1.jpg|[[Eisenach]] {{ill|Reichsbank branch in Eisenach{{!}}branch|de|Reichsbankgebäude (Eisenach)}}, Karl-Marx-Straße 53, completed 1905<ref>{{cite web |website=Architektur Bildarchiv |url=https://www.architektur-bildarchiv.de/image/Reichsbankgeb%C3%A4ude-Eisenach-19923.html |title=Reichsbankgebäude Eisenach }}</ref>

File:Essen Werden - Wesselswerth-Rittergasse 02 ies.jpg|[[Werden, Essen]] branch, Wesselswerth 9, completed 1902<ref>{{cite web |website=Essener Ruhrperlen |title=Ehemalige Reichsbank |url=https://www.essener-ruhrperlen.de/werden/historische-bauwerke-in-werden/ehemalige-reichsbank/ }}</ref>

File:Duisburger Straße 216 Duisburg Hamborn.jpg|[[Hamborn]] (Duisburg) branch, Duisburger Straße 216, completed 1908<ref>{{cite web |website=duisburg.de |title=Ehemalige Reichsbank |url=https://www.duisburg.de/microsites/sieben_bezirke/hamborn/obermarxloh/reichsbank-obermarxloh.php }}</ref>

File:Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg-01-2.jpg|[[Hamburg]] [[Bucerius Kunst Forum|branch]], Rathausmarkt 2 (arch. Habicht & Nitze), completed 1919

File:Ehemalige Reichsbank Hoerde 004.jpg|[[Hörde]] (Dortmund) branch, Penningskamp 7, completed 1909

File:Reichsbank in der Fleethörn (Kiel 27.363).jpg|[[Kiel]] branch, Fleethörn 29 (early 20th century photograph)

File:Reichsbank (Königsberg).JPG|[[Königsberg]] (now [[Kaliningrad]]) branch, Grosser Domplatz, erected in the late 18th century, destroyed in World War II<ref>{{cite web |website=Ostpreussen Bildarchiv |title=Königsberg (Pr.), Großer Domplatz, Reichsbank (Schindelmeißer-Haus) |url=https://www.bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de/cgi-bin/bildarchiv/suche/show_foto.cgi?lang=polski&id=18351&showmenu=1&bildinfos=1&size=middle }}</ref>

File:Hauptverwaltung Deutsche Bundesbank Stuttgart 01.jpg|[[Stuttgart]] branch, Marstallstrasse 3 (arch. {{ill|Hans Herkommer|de}} & Theodor Bulling), completed 1923<ref>{{cite web |website=Deutsche Bundesbank |title=Architektur und Kunst: Deutsche Bundesbank Hauptverwaltung in Baden-Württemberg |url=https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/607126/24a7894086011580db96f645a2c33056/mL/architektur-und-kunst-hv-stuttgart-data.pdf |author=Iris Cramer and Sabine Muschler}}</ref>

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