Loans - Schedule Of Troubled Debt Restructurings Within The Previous 12 Months (Details) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($) loan	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($) loan
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number \| loan	65	24
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 1,952	$ 13,154
Commercial \| C&I
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number \| loan	2	5
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 579	$ 11,498
Commercial \| Commercial Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number \| loan	0	1
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 0	$ 88
Consumer \| Consumer Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number \| loan	8	5
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 385	$ 776
Consumer \| Permanent mortgage
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number \| loan	6	3
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 749	$ 715
Consumer \| Credit card & other
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number \| loan	49	10
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 239	$ 77
General C&I \| Commercial \| C&I
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number \| loan	2	5
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 579	$ 11,498
Income CRE \| Commercial \| Commercial Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number \| loan	0	1
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 0	$ 88
HELOC \| Consumer \| Consumer Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number \| loan	6	5
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 239	$ 776
R/E installment loans \| Consumer \| Consumer Real Estate
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Number \| loan	2	0
Recorded Investment \| $	$ 146	$ 0

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Number of financing receivables that have been modified by troubled debt restructurings within the previous 12 months and for which there was a payment default.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 34
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Amount of investment related to financing receivables modified by troubled debt restructurings within the previous 12 months, for which there was a payment default.

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