Bank Krajowy

The Bank Krajowy, full name Bank Krajowy dla Królestwa Galicji i Lodomerii wraz z Wielkim Księstwem Krakowskim (German: Landesbank für Koenigreich Gazlizien und Lodomerien mit Grossherzogtum Krakau, lit.

The Bank Krajowy was the first credit institution in Galicia that emerged outside of the Jewish community, leaving aside direct loans provided by large landowners.

[1] The new public bank, whose capital was subscribed by the provincial government, started operations on 2 July 1883.

In 1910, it opened another branch in Bielsko-Biała, for which it erected a new building designed by architect Leopold Landau in the early 1920s.

[2]: 255  By then, it had added branches in Stanisławów (later Ivano-Frankivsk), Przemyśl, Drohobycz,[4] and Kolomyia to the prior ones in Kraków and Biała.

Former head office of Bank Krajowy in Lemberg, now State University of Physical Culture in Lviv