The publication presents the development of long-term mortgage credit, provided by institutions specially established for such activity, such as land credit societies and municipal credit societies, as well as mortgage banks and state banks. The history of the activities of these entities is described in connection with the people who shaped their activities and illustrated with the mortgage bonds they issued and, in the case of banks, also with their shares.
Part of the study is devoted to the headquarters of these institutions. These are often now architectural gems. These objects are presented in illustrations, as far as possible from the era. Their architectural styles are described and the profiles of the architects are introduced. The publication covers the period from the end of the 18th century to the present day, and territorially - the areas of the three partitions, interwar and modern Poland. Some of the listed entities were not necessarily Polish in character, but their area of activity coincides with the current borders of our country, and some, conversely, were definitely Polish, but the area of their activity today is outside Poland.
The book describes 39 issuers of mortgage bonds on 220 pages, includes 64 illustrations depicting their headquarters, includes reproductions of 97 mortgage bonds and shares. The index of names contains 898 items.
The book provides information on such entities:
- Territorial Credit Societies: Poznań, Warsaw and Lviv,
- Municipal Credit Societies: of Warsaw, Lodz, Lublin, Kalisz, Plock,Radom, Kielce, Czestochowa, Lomza, Siedlce, Suwalki, Vilna, Bialystok, as well as Piotrkowskie, Lwowskie and Zachodnio-Polskie,
- Polish Industry Credit Society,
- State banks: the National Bank of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria with the Grand Duchy of Cracow, the State Agricultural Bank, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego,
- Mortgage banks: the ABH in Lviv, the Galician Bank, later the Bank of Lesser Poland,
Vilnius Land Bank SA, the Land Credit Bank in Lviv, and the Mortgage Credit Bank in Warsaw,
- Other long-term credit institutions in the Polish lands: Schlesische Landschaft, Schlesische Landeskreditanstalt, Pommersche Landschaft, Westpreuβische Landschaft, Danziger Hypothekenbank AG, Danziger Hypotheken-verein, Zemel'nij Bank Gìpotečnij u L'vovì Spiłka akcijna,
- Modern banks: Pekao Bank Hipoteczny SA, mBank Hipoteczny SA, PKO Bank Hipoteczny SA, ING Bank Hipoteczny SA.
