The Creditanstalt, full original name k. k. priv. Österreichische Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe, was a major Austrian bank, founded in 1855 in Vienna.
Creditanstalt head office during the 1920s and early 1930s on the Freyung, in 2014 as Bank Austria Kunstforum
Advert of Creditanstalt's creation in Wiener Zeitung, 6 November 1855
Share certificate of the Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe, issued 31 March 1858
The Creditanstalt's first head office on Renngasse 1
The Rothschild family is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s. Unlike most previous court factors, Rothschild managed to bequeath his wealth and established an international banking family through his five sons, who established businesses in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Naples. The family was elevated to noble rank in the Holy Roman Empire and the United Kingdom. The family's documented history starts in 16th century Frankfurt; its name is derived from the family house, Rothschild, built by Isaak Elchanan Bacharach in Frankfurt in 1567.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty.
House of the Rothschild family, Judengasse, Frankfurt
Palace of Baron Albert von Rothschild (photo 1884)
A landmark Rothschild palace in Frankfurt, Germany, Villa Günthersburg (photographed 1855)
