Landesbank für Bosnien und Herzegowina

The Landesbank für Bosnien und Herzegowina (Serbo-Croatian: Privilegovana zemaljska banka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu, lit.

[4] By the end of the Austro-Hungarian period, the local government held an equity stake alongside the Wiener Bankverein and the Creditanstalt.

[5]: vii, 3 The bank survived the turmoil of World War I and, while still under the control of the Wiener Bankverein and its new shareholders the Banque Belge pour l'Étranger and Basler Handelsbank, adapted to the new conditions in the newly created Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

[10] It occupies a prominent location at the eastern end of Sarajevo's main thoroughfare, named Marshal Tito street since 1945.

On 6 April 1946, the Eternal Flame monument, a tribute to the Yugoslav Partisans designed by Juraj Neidhardt, was inaugurated at the front of the Landesbank building, replacing the former main entrance.

1900 postcard
Former branch in Bijeljina
The Eternal Flame in 2008