Loans (Commercial Loan Portfolio Categorized by Internally Assigned Asset Classification) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Dec. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020
Financing Receivable Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Prior Fiscal Year 2
Prior Fiscal Year 3
Total
Commercial Business [Member]
Financing Receivable Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Current Fiscal Year	141,970	351,185
Prior Fiscal Year 1	91,726	113,040
Prior Fiscal Year 2	68,768	83,233
Prior Fiscal Year 3	43,420	33,163
Prior Fiscal Year 4	25,442	8,438
Prior	13,426	17,934
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	253,541	187,155
Total	638,293	794,148
Commercial Business [Member] \| Uncriticized [Member]
Financing Receivable Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Current Fiscal Year	141,925	350,992
Prior Fiscal Year 1	91,338	112,469
Prior Fiscal Year 2	68,433	82,029
Prior Fiscal Year 3	42,631	31,990
Prior Fiscal Year 4	24,847	8,195
Prior	12,033	16,600
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	248,338	179,770
Revolving Loans Converted to Term	0
Total	629,545	782,045
Commercial Business [Member] \| Special Mention [Member]
Financing Receivable Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Current Fiscal Year	0
Prior Fiscal Year 1	132	360
Prior Fiscal Year 2	166	21
Prior Fiscal Year 3	44	709
Prior Fiscal Year 4	180	41
Prior	1,344	1,025
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	1,993	2,995
Revolving Loans Converted to Term	0
Total	3,859	5,151
Commercial Business [Member] \| Substandard [Member]
Financing Receivable Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Current Fiscal Year	45	193
Prior Fiscal Year 1	256	211
Prior Fiscal Year 2	169	1,183
Prior Fiscal Year 3	745	464
Prior Fiscal Year 4	415	202
Prior	49	309
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	3,210	4,390
Revolving Loans Converted to Term	0
Total	4,889	6,952
Commercial Business [Member] \| Doubtful [Member]
Financing Receivable Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Current Fiscal Year	0
Prior Fiscal Year 1	0	0
Prior Fiscal Year 2	0
Prior Fiscal Year 3		0
Prior Fiscal Year 4	0
Prior	0	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0
Revolving Loans Converted to Term	0
Total	0	0
Commercial Mortgage [Member]
Financing Receivable Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Current Fiscal Year	354,668	324,852
Prior Fiscal Year 1	342,515	272,232
Prior Fiscal Year 2	209,462	185,234
Prior Fiscal Year 3	161,198	190,949
Prior Fiscal Year 4	139,859	87,174
Prior	201,374	192,487
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	3,712	973
Revolving Loans Converted to Term	0
Total	1,412,788	1,253,901
Commercial Mortgage [Member] \| Uncriticized [Member]
Financing Receivable Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Current Fiscal Year	342,483	310,364
Prior Fiscal Year 1	339,988	227,406
Prior Fiscal Year 2	176,753	163,839
Prior Fiscal Year 3	147,247	161,771
Prior Fiscal Year 4	128,381	74,915
Prior	167,739	154,399
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	3,712	731
Revolving Loans Converted to Term	0
Total	1,306,303	1,093,425
Commercial Mortgage [Member] \| Special Mention [Member]
Financing Receivable Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Current Fiscal Year	11,184	14,299
Prior Fiscal Year 1	2,450	42,305
Prior Fiscal Year 2	29,759	19,505
Prior Fiscal Year 3	2,344	27,530
Prior Fiscal Year 4	8,269	12,256
Prior	27,635	28,744
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	43
Revolving Loans Converted to Term	0
Total	81,641	144,682
Commercial Mortgage [Member] \| Substandard [Member]
Financing Receivable Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Current Fiscal Year	1,001	189
Prior Fiscal Year 1	77	2,521
Prior Fiscal Year 2	2,950	1,890
Prior Fiscal Year 3	11,607	1,648
Prior Fiscal Year 4	3,209	3
Prior	6,000	9,344
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0	199
Revolving Loans Converted to Term	0
Total	24,844	15,794
Commercial Mortgage [Member] \| Doubtful [Member]
Financing Receivable Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Current Fiscal Year	0
Prior Fiscal Year 1	0
Prior Fiscal Year 2	0
Prior Fiscal Year 4	0
Prior	0
Revolving Loans Amortized Cost Basis	0
Revolving Loans Converted to Term	0
Total	$ 0

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