On the site of today’s savings bank there used to be rococo Hrbek house, where a clergyman Josef Šmidinger was born, a nationalist and a bookish person who founded a library in Strakonice in 1843.

In 1905 the emperor František Josef I was expected to arrive the house had already been doomed to demolition. It had to be therefore covered with bag-cloth and decorated with paper flower garlands. Shortly after emperor had left, the house was pulled down and a new savings bank in secession neo-renaissance was built on its place. It was a town one firstly, and then a national one and now it is The Czech savings bank. There is Šmidinger’s memorial plaque at the entrance. The former town savings bank was finished in 1906 according to the drafts by the architect Karel Bubla. The decoration on the forefront was made by Josef Bosáček according to the drafts by Václav Malý.