Sparkasse Mainfranken announced today that it will close 24 people-occupied and five self-service locations by the end of the year. This affects offices in the districts of Kitzingen, Main-Spessart, Würzburg and also in the city of Würzburg. This decision by the Sparkasse in the town of Rieneck in the Main-Spessart district is making waves. The office in Rieneck should not reopen after the corona-related closure and the ATM should also be dismantled.
Sparkasse is part of Rieneck
“I don’t understand this from the perspective of Rieneck’s customers, nor from the city’s perspective!” Said Mayor Sven Nickel. These attempts by all means to make the place as attractive and interesting as possible. And then a public-law bank with its own property will withdraw from the market. Nickel says: “This is counterproductive and wrong! I communicated this to the Sparkasse very clearly. “The Sparkasse in Rieneck is at its current location and also in the previous position two houses further an institution that has belonged to Rieneck.” How to give the new district administrator such a welcome gift in the board of directors of savings banks is beyond me! “continued Nickel.
Mayor wants to fight for whereabouts
He also does not want to accept the reasoning that the decision was made in 2019 and fired by Corona. For every customer it is a “slap in the face” if you “stay loyal to your institute” for decades, and then the doors are suddenly closed. ” How it goes on? For the mayor, who is also a bank employee at another institute, the matter is clear: “I cannot accept this for myself and think we should fight. If the Sparkasse sticks to this decision, I see few reasons why Rienecker should give it to her should remain loyal “. That he had to persuade the Sparkasse to stay as an employee of another bank was a piece of real satire.
SPD: Attack on municipal infrastructure
The SPD district parliamentary group also criticized the closure of many branches announced by Sparkasse Mainfranken. The Würzburg SPD district parliamentary group criticized the planned measure as “an attack on the municipal infrastructure”. “The Sparkasse is withdrawing from the area, leaving municipalities, citizens and customers in the rain,” said fraction spokesman Stefan Wolfshörndl. The savings banks, which are publicly owned, would have a supply contract. The decision stands in the way of strengthening rural areas, securing municipal infrastructure and providing cash – especially for the older generation – according to the SPD district parliamentary group.
Sparkasse Mainfranken plans to close 29 branches
As the Sparkasse Mainfranken announced today, it plans to close around 30 out of a total of around 100 branches of the Sparkassen throughout the Mainfranken area by the end of the year. The change is a “strategic decision”, the bank said. Sparkasse customers would also increasingly ask for new digital services. The customer frequency in the branches has been decreasing noticeably for years. In addition, the monetary policy of the European Central Bank ECB has increased the cost pressure. The aim of the “adjustment in the branch network” is to keep Sparkasse Mainfranken Würzburg economically efficient in the long term in order to “continue to reliably fulfill our mandate as lender and sponsor of the region”, said the bank’s announcement this morning.
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