Amsterdamsche Bank

Not to be confused with Bank of Amsterdam.

Former head office of Amsterdamsche Bank on Amsterdam's Rembrandtplein; lately headquarters of Booking.com

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 (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 on Rembrandtplein, designed by Bert Johan Ouëndag and completed in 1932, is a notable Art Deco landmark of Amsterdam.

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  Amsterdamsche Bank head office, ca. 1932
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  Head office viewed from Rembrandtplein, 1950
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  Former Amsterdamsche Bank branch on Sarphatistraat, previously the office of Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co.
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  The adjacent buildings of Twentsche Bank (left), Netherlands Trading Society, and Amsterdamsche Bank (right) on the Blaak in Rotterdam, 1953
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  Former Amsterdamsche Incasso Bank building at Blaak 40, later Kamer van Koophandel Rotterdam, built in 1950
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  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
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  Former Incasso Bank building in Rotterdam
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  Former Incasso Bank building in Utrecht
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  Former Incasso Bank building in Enschede, photographed in 1980
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  The same building in 2010

See also

• Rabobank