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Fair Value Disclosures - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)	Jul. 01, 2014	Jan. 27, 2014	Jun. 30, 2016	Jun. 30, 2015	Dec. 31, 2015
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Goodwill, period increase			$ 0	$ 1,525,000
Valuation adjustments for loans held for sale			0		$ 0
Carrying value of impaired loans held for investment			44,034,000
Valuation allowance of impaired loans held for investment			410,000		322,000
Mortgage Servicing Rights Carrying Amount Before Valuation Allowance			5,900,000		5,900,000,000
Mortgage Servicing Rights Valuation Allowance			0		0
Fair Value Measured on Recurring Basis [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis			256,527,000		330,859,000
Level 3 [Member] \| Fair Value Measured on Recurring Basis [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis			0		0
Sterner Insurance Associates Inc [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Potential cash payments from contingent consideration, minimum	$ 0
Potential cash payments from contingent consideration, maximum	$ 3,900,000.0
Potential cash payments from contingent consideration based on results, period of measurement (in months)	12 months
Potential cash payments from contingent consideration, end date	2017
Goodwill, period increase			0	1,525,000
Increase of other noninterest expense			183,000
Girard Partners [Member]
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Potential cash payments from contingent consideration, minimum		$ 0
Potential cash payments from contingent consideration, maximum		$ 12,900,000.0
Potential cash payments from contingent consideration, end date		2018
Goodwill, period increase			0	0
Remaining potential cash payments from contingent consideration, period of measurement (in years)		3 years
Reduction of other noninterest expense					550,000
John T. Fretz Insurance Agency [Member]
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Goodwill, period increase			0	$ 0
Held for Investment [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Carrying value of impaired loans held for investment			$ 44,000,000		$ 48,933,000