Palace of Justice

Brussels Palace of Justice

Justice Palace Munich

The Palace of Justice is the name given to monumental buildings that are the seat of courts, justice ministries and other judicial authorities. Palaces of justice were particularly built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often in the style of historicism .

Well-known examples are:

• the Palais de Justice in Paris (the mother of all palaces of justice)
• the Palace of Justice in Brussels (built 1866–1883, largest palace of justice of the 19th century)
• the Palace of Justice in Augsburg (built 1871–1875)
• the former justice building in Stuttgart (built 1875–1879; destroyed in 1944)
• the Palace of Justice in Vienna (built 1875–1881 by Alexander Wielemans von Monteforte )
• the Palais de Justice in Lausanne (built 1881–1886, former seat of the Federal Supreme Court)
• the Palace of Justice in Alexandria (built 1884–1887)
• the Palazzo di Giustizia in Rome (built 1888–1910)
• the Palace of Justice in Bucharest (built 1890–1895)
• the Palace of Justice in Munich (built 1891–1897 by Friedrich von Thiersch )
• the Palace of Justice in Strasbourg (built 1894–1897)
• the Palace of Justice in Magdeburg (built 1900–1906)
• the justice building on Littenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte (second largest building in the city after the Berlin Palace , today a seat of the Berlin Regional Court )
• the judicial building of the Cologne Higher Regional Court (built 1907–1911)
• the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg (built 1909–1916; scene of the Nuremberg trials )
• the former Palace of Justice in Düsseldorf (built 1913–1923)
• the Palace of Justice in Florence (completed in 2005, second largest building in Italy)
• the Palace of Justice in Istanbul (built under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , the largest modern Palace of Justice in the world)
• the courthouse in Glasgow (built 1811)
• Kaunas Palace of Justice , Lithuania
• the Palace of Justice in Bolzano (built 1939–1956)
• the Palace of Justice in Via Freguglia in Milan (seat of the Milan Court of Appeal , built during the time of Italian fascism )
• the Palace of Justice in Sofia (built 1929–1940)

See also

• Palácio da Justiça , palaces of justice in Portugal and Brazil
• Judicial center
• Courthouse