District court Bensheim

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The Bensheim District Court at Wilhelmstrasse 26

The Bensheim District Court (AG Bensheim) is a court of ordinary jurisdiction in the southern Hessian city of Bensheim an der Bergstrasse .

Seat and District of the Court

Location of the district court district of Bensheim in Hesse
Location of the district court district of Bensheim in Hesse

The seat of the court is in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse at Wilhelmstrasse 26. The judicial district of the Bensheim District Court includes the city of Bensheim (including all districts), the district town of Heppenheim (including all districts), the city of Lorsch , the city of Zwingenberg (with the district Rodau ), the municipality of Einhausen and the municipality of Lautertal (with all districts).

Jurisdiction

The Bensheim District Court is the first instance in civil, family and criminal matters for its own judicial district. In addition, it is responsible for youth lay judges and lay judges' court cases in their own district and in the district court districts of Fürth and Lampertheim.

AG Bensheim is not responsible for commercial and association register matters as well as insolvency matters. The Darmstadt District Court is responsible for this. AG Bensheim is also not responsible for dunning procedures. Hesse-wide jurisdiction lies with the Hünfeld district court .

history

At the instigation of the Grand Ducal Ministry of Justice, a district court was established in Bensheim with effect from May 1, 1902, and the associated district court district from the places Bensheim, Elmshausen , Gadernheim , Gronau , Lautern , Ober-Hambach , Raidelbach , Reichenbach , Unter-Hambach , Schönberg , Wilmshausen and Zell . On October 1, 1934, the entire district of the Zwingenberg District Court with the communities Alsbach , Auerbach , Balkhausen , Beedenkirchen , Bickenbach , Fehlheim , Hähnlein , Hochstädten , Jugenheim , Langwaden , Ober-Beerbach , Rodau , Schwanheim , Seeheim , Staffel and Zwingenberg and were repealed the municipalities of Erbach , Groß-Hausen , Heppenheim, Kirschhausen , Klein-Hausen , Lorsch, Ober-Laudenbach , Sonderbach and Wald-Erlenbach from the district of the abolished Lorsch District Court were assigned to the Bensheim District Court. With effect from July 1, 1968, the municipalities of Alsbach, Balkhausen, Bickenbach, Hähnlein, Jugenheim ad Bergstrasse, Ober-Beerbach and Seeheim were added to the Darmstadt District Court . As a result of the regional reform in Hesse , on September 11, 1971, the district of Mittershausen, which was incorporated into Heppenheim, and on September 29, 1972, the districts of Knoden and Schannenbach, incorporated into Lautertal, were separated from the Fürth district court and added to the Bensheim district court.

Superior courts

The Regional Court of Darmstadt and the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main are superordinate to the AG Bensheim .

building

Courtyard side of the courthouse

The building where the district court is located, is an under monument protection standing cultural monument . It was designed by the Darmstadt architect Karl Hofmann and built between 1900 and 1902. On May 1, 1902, the two - storey neo - Romanesque solid building was opened to the public. Until 1980, the two-storey granite-brick court prison was located right next to the building. It was demolished in November 1980.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Judicial Competence Ordinance (JuZu) § 8
  2. ^ Announcement regarding the establishment of a local court in Bensheim on March 26, 1902 . In: Grand Ducal Ministry of Justice (Ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1902 no. 19 , p. 154 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 29.1 MB ]).
  3. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of district courts of April 11, 1934 . In: Hessian government paper. 1934 No. 10 , p. 63 ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 13.6 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Second law amending the Court Organization Act (Amends GVBl. II 210–16) of February 12, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1968 No. 4 , p. 41–44 , Article 2, Paragraph 1 a) ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 298 kB ]).
  5. ↑ Seventeenth Ordinance on the Correction of the Annex to the Court Organization Act (Amends GVBl. II 210–16) of September 10, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1971 No. 26 , p. 247–248 , Section 1, Paragraph 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 427 kB ]).
  6. ↑ Twentieth ordinance to correct the annex to the Court Organization Act (Amends GVBl. II 210-16) of September 28, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 25 , p. 337–339 , § 1 Paragraph 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 419 kB ]).
  7. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): District Court Bensheim In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse

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Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 7 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 11.6"  E