friedrichwilhelmraiffessen

The home of the Gnomes

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• beachcomber australia said:

  "RAIFFEISEN SPARKASSE" (savings bank) written middle top. Must be Switzerland. Or Austria. Or Germany. Here is Herr Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (30 March 1818 – 11 March 1888), who pioneered rural crediti unions -
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Raiffeisen
  "... Raiffeisen stated that there is a connection between poverty and dependency. To fight poverty one should fight dependency first. Based on this idea he came up with the three 'S' formula: self-help, self-governance, and self-responsibility (in the original German: Selbsthilfe, Selbstverwaltung, and Selbstverantwortung). When put into practice, the necessary independence from charity, politics, and loan sharks could be established ..."

• Aileen Kane said:

  beachcomber australia It’s cool to see this bank represented in Ireland. I used their Bankomat when I lived in Sarajevo.

• Aileen Kane said:

  Aileen Kane My mistake! I thought it was in Ireland. I was wrong.

• beachcomber australia said:

  Aileen Kane Do you know where this building is? I keep coming up against, er, um, brick walls! Someone will know ...

• derangedlemur said:

  They're all over central Europe - it could be anywhere.
  probably Switzerland from the title, though.