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Piešťanská sporiteľňa, Piešťany
Piešťanská sporiteľňa (Piešťany Savings Bank) was founded in 1885 under the Hungarian name Pöstyéni takarékpénztár with share capital of 70,000 guldens, which, after the changeover to the gold-backed Austro-Hungarian crown (K), was valued at K 140,000. The share capital was raised to K 630,000 in 1910 and K 1 million in 1921. The bank paid relatively high dividends: between 1893 and 1900 it was 20% of the nominal value of the shares, but in earlier periods it could be up to 30%. For a long time, Jozef Fodor was the bank’s president and Ladislav Fodor was the director.
Piešťanská sporiteľňa was adversely impacted by the break-up of Austria-Hungary and the establishment of the first Czechoslovak Republic because its funds were tied up in Budapest. It had invested a significant amount in war loans, which it managed to have recognised as claims against the Czechoslovak Republic with help from the banking industry organisation Jednota peňažných ústavov na Slovensku a Podkarpatskej Rusi (Association of Credit Institutions in Slovakia and Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia) in Bratislava. In 1921 the management of the bank decided to support a takeover by Slovenská banka, Bratislava (Slovak Bank) and become its branch in Piešťany.
From 1956, archival documents on activities of Piešťanská sporiteľňa were kept in the corporate archives of Štátna banka československá (State Bank of Czechoslovaki) in Marianka, where a basic register of the material was made. In 1978 the fonds was transferred to the corporate archives of Štátna banka československá at 27 Krajná Street in Bratislava and in 2003 it was relocated to the Národná banka Slovenska archives building at 8 Cukrová Street in Bratislava.
The bank’s documentation includes material covering the period from 1885 to 1921 in Hungarian, German and Slovak. The most important documents include minutes of management meetings, annual reports and accounts, which may be useful for research on the history of banking in Slovakia before 1918, focussing on the activities of a medium-sized Hungarian credit institution. The archival fonds was processed in the archives of Národná banka Slovenska in 2016.
Last updated: Friday, November 22, 2024