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New building for milk processing co-operative and savings and loan association at Dorfstrasse 33 and 35
Photo taken in 1937: The cidery was housed in the lower building on the left until 1959, when it was converted into the cash office of the co-operative bank.
View from Dorfstraße to Bahnhofstraße to the house of August Lumpp, Bahnhofstraße 3
Around 1970, the small house behind the blue Volkswagen, Dorfstraße 38 by Maria Quek, was demolished around 1974, as was the Lumpp house. On the left, the goods store of the co-operative bank with the dairy shop of the milk collection point.
Dorfstraße 36, formerly house no. 76, the poorhouse in Dorfstraße, popularly known as the beggar"s house.
Around 1965: The beggar"s house was acquired by the municipality in 1938, having previously been used in part as a poorhouse. Zanzinger writes: "For the expansion of Dorfstraße and Bahnhofstraße planned for the foreseeable future, the two private shares in building no. 76 in Dorfstraße were purchased by the municipality in 1938 at a price of RM 6,570. The previous parts of the community were used as a poorhouse. However, this part of the building is no longer habitable due to dilapidation and was "closed for residential purposes". The building is prepared for demolition, the farmhouse to the right of it, Dorfstraße 34, has already been levelled and prepared as a building site for GENOBA.
The Volksbank building at Dorfstr. 34 today
Vereinigte Volksbanken - Wannweil branch. Dorfstraße 34

Description

From the Darlehenskassenverein to the Volksbank

Since 1937, the former building of the first Wannweil "bank", founded in 1895 as the "Darlehenskassenverein", and the Wannweil Milk Utilisation Cooperative was located opposite the Volksbank. In 1935, the name "Sparkasse" came into play. The bank now called itself the "Spar- und Darlehenskasse Wannweil eingetragene Genossenschaft mit unbeschränkter Haftung" (Savings and Loan Bank Wannweil registered co-operative with unlimited liability) and was able to erect its own building for the first time in 1937, the exterior of which still stands today. In place of Chr. Steinmayer´s farmhouse, a milk collection centre, a cidery and a cash room, which was located on the upper floor, were built. However, ownership was divided between the milk processing co-operative and the loan office. Until then, the business had been conducted in the flats of the accountants. The cidery was relocated to Jahnstraße in 1959 and the rooms were converted into a new cash room, which replaced the old, office-style cash room. The new bank building opposite the old premises was built in 1967 and, after the move to the building opposite, the sale of goods was handled in the former counter room. From 1952 to 1981, the bank traded as "Genossenschaftsbank Wannweil eGmbH", then as "Raiffeisenbank Wannweil-Betzingen eG" until the merger with Volksbank Reutlingen in 1999. The unwieldy names were not pronounced as written, and the bank went by the names "Darlehnskass", "GENOBA" and later "RAIBA". The old milk collection centre was rented to the shoemaker´s daughter Hilde Stehle in 1969. She ran a shoe shop in the former sales room and lived on the upper floor in the converted old cashier´s room. The rear rooms and the cold store were used as a shoe warehouse. She gave up her business in 1999 due to her age. The shop is still used commercially.

The history of the loan office can be found in the commemorative publication "75 Jahre Genossenschaftsbank Wannweil" (1970), "100 Jahre Raiffeisenbank Wannweil-Betzingen eG" (1995) and "150 Jahre Volksbank Reutlingen" (2011), ISBN 978-3-89735-652-8.