Amsterdamsche Bank
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The Amsterdamsche Bank was a significant bank in the Netherlands, founded in 1871. In 1964, it merged with Rotterdamsche Bank to form AMRO Bank (for AMsterdamsche & ROtterdamsche).
Overview
Amsterdamsche Bank was established on 5 December 1871 by a group of mainly German investors led by the Bank für Handel und Industrie (Darmstadt), in the context of German financial expansion following its victory of the Franco-Prussian War. It expanded rapidly from its base in Amsterdam to other cities in the Netherlands. In 1948 it took over Incasso Bank[nl] (est. 1891), which it fully absorbed in 1956.
Its elegant Art Nouveau head office building on Herengracht 597–601, designed by Eduard Cuypers and completed in 1897, was demolished in 1966. A subsequent head office building[nl] on Rembrandtplein, designed by Bert Johan Ouëndag and completed in 1932, is a notable Art Deco landmark of Amsterdam.
- Amsterdamsche Bank head office, ca. 1932
- Head office viewed from Rembrandtplein, 1950
- Former Amsterdamsche Bank branch on Sarphatistraat, previously the office of Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co.
- The adjacent buildings of Twentsche Bank[nl] (left), Netherlands Trading Society, and Amsterdamsche Bank (right) on the Blaak[nl] in Rotterdam, 1953
- Former Amsterdamsche Incasso Bank building at Blaak 40, later Kamer van Koophandel Rotterdam, built in 1950
- Former Incasso Bank building known as De Bisschop, designed by Jan Gratama and built in 1934 at the corner of Dam Square and Damrak in Amsterdam
- Former Incasso Bank building in Rotterdam
- Former Incasso Bank building[nl] in Utrecht
- Former Incasso Bank building in Enschede, photographed in 1980
- The same building in 2010