page_title: Sparekassen Bikuben
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sparekassen Bikuben / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Sparekassen Bikuben's former headquarters in Silkegade in Cpåenhagen, Denmark.
context_page_description: Sparekassen Bikuben was a Danish savings bank founded on 3 March 1857 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It merged with GiroBank under the name BH Bank in 1995 and has later been absorbed by Danske Bank. Its former headquarters at Silkegade 6-8 was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1999.
context_section_description: Sparekassen Bikuben was founded on 3 March 1857 and was initially operated out of the bank manager's apartment at Silkegade 13. The building on the other side of the street (No. 8) was acquired in 1860. It was subsequently adapted for use as a bank building by Hans Conrad Stilling.
  After five years the expanding savings bank had run out of space and purchased a second building in Pilestræde but was at this point unable to acquire the building at the corner. The two buildings were replaced by a new bank building in 1881-84. The corner building was finally acquired in 1897. It was demolished and replaced by a new wing by  erstattet af Gotfred Tvedes in 1927-29.
caption: Stilling's building at Silkegade 8
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