Business- and Agricultural Bank of Jutland ( da, Jydsk Handels- og Landbrugsbank) is a

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building and a former Danish

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History

In 1870 the firm D.B. Adler & Co., based in

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acquired the business and bank company ''Adler, Wulff & Meyer'', based in Aarhus. The new company was turned into a

Kommanditselskab A kommanditselskab (; abbreviated K/S) is the Danish equivalent of the limited partnership. The owners are divided into general partners (''komplementarer'' in Danish) and limited partners (''kommanditister'' in Danish). Often the only general p ...

structure and in October 1874 the Jydsk Handels- og Landbrugsbank A/S company was formed with Christian Ludvig Kier as president until 1876 when it became a subsidiary of the Copenhagen Business Bank, under its own name for many years, effectively functioning as a branch. From 1921 NIels Jensen became director of the branch and later the assistant director of Copenhagen Business Bank in 1934 and the vice-president in 1948. In 1944 the branch was moved to ''Rådhuspladsen'' and in 1990 the Copenhagen Business Bank, ''Danske Bank'' and ''Provinsbanken'' merged to form

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. The logo of the Copenhagen Business Bank was in use until the year of 2000 but the name and logo of Jydsk Handels- og Landbrugsbank was decommissioned.

Architecture

Jydsk Handels- og Landbrugsbank was situated on

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in Aarhus, in a building drawn by architect

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, constructed in 1899–1900 and

in 1996 by the

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. The building is mainly inspired by Italian

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with elements of the

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. The building is in 3 floors and sits on an inwardly leaning base of quarried granite

ashlar Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruv ...

topped with a bright profile strip. The outer walls of the ground floor is also granite ashlar but in different colors while red bricks are used on the upper floors and the low roof. The ashlar and brick sections are broken by a

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and the brick section is topped with a heavy

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cornice. The windows are framed in

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with twin arches above and rope ornaments on the sills below. The roof is

half-hipped A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...

and topped with glazed tile. The interior features a marble stairwell with wrought iron railing and patterned masonry. The building remains close to original condition with the only major change being a new the window towards

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being changed to a door when a shop moved in, in 2008, and ground floor windows having been replaced. The walls, columns, vaults, panels and decorations are generally intact and original.

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