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Spišskonovoveská úverná banka, Spišská Nová Ves
Spišskonovoveská úverná banka, účastinná spoločnosť (Spišská Nová Ves Credit Bank, joint-stock company) was founded in 1872 under the Hungarian name Szepes-iglói takarék és hitelintézet, r. t. (Spišská Nová Ves Saving and Credit Institution) and opened its first branches in Kežmarok, Krompachy, Poprad, Spišské Podhradie and Spišské Vlachy. The bank prospered and in 1920 it had a net profit of 103,000 Czechoslovak crowns (Kč), with deposits of Kč 10 million and loan stocks of Kč 28 million. For the 1923 financial year, it reported a net profit of Kč 274,000, deposits on savings books amounting to Kč 20 million and loan stocks of Kč 13.5 million. The balance sheet for 1929 shows a net profit of just Kč 80,000, with increases in the stock of both deposits (Kč 30 million) and loans (Kč 28 million).
The bank was authorised to accept deposits, to discount and rediscount bills, to provide mortgage and current-account loans, to buy and sell securities, to buy and sell real estate and to provide universal banking services.
The members of the board of directors and supervisory board were Vladimír Zborovský, financial counsellor; Juraj Koromzay, owner of a starch factory; Jozef Blažek, director; Richard Horna, university professor; Jozef Polák, wholesaler; Štefan Slavkovský, notary; Gejza Rehák, senator; Edmund Száll, bank director; Anton Teschler, doctor; Pavel Varsik, bank director; Ladislav Štefánik, notary; František Odložilik, bank director; Maximilian Štefánik, notary; Adolf Dobó, school headmaster; Ladislav Fabián, merchant; Fridrich Rolný, canon; and Ladislav Thern, professor.
Spišskonovoveská úverná banka remained in business until it was taken over by Slovenská všeobecná úverná banka, Bratislava (Slovak General Credit Bank), in 1933. Preserved archival material on the bank was kept in the archives of Štátna banka československá (State Bank of Czechoslovakia) in Bratislava until 1965, when it was transferred to the corporate archives of Štátna banka československá at 2 Šrobárova Street in Košice by order of the Slovak Archives Administration. After 1990 the fonds was relocated to the Archives of Národná banka Slovenska at 27 Krajná Street in Bratislava and it was moved to its archives building at 8 Cukrová Street in Bratislava in 2003.
The archival documents fit in a single box and cover only fragments of the bank’s activities – its articles of association, annual reports and some loan documentation. The first inventory was prepared in 1967. The introduction was based on business reports from the period 1920 to 1929. This inventory was revised in the Archives of Národná banka Slovenska in 2016.
Last updated: Monday, December 15, 2025