District Court of Bentheim
The Bentheim District Court was a court of ordinary jurisdiction in Bentheim .
After the revolution of 1848 was the Kingdom of Hanover , the jurisdiction of the administration separated and the patrimonial abolished. The district court was then founded with the ordinance of August 7, 1852 regarding the formation of the district courts and lower administrative authorities as a royal Hanover district court. It included the office of Bentheim , the patch of Bentheim and the city of Schüttorf . The district court was subordinate to the higher court of Meppen . With the annexation of Hanover by Prussia , it became a Prussian district court in the province of Hanover .
In 1973, as part of the upcoming Lower Saxony district reform, there were also accompanying changes in the judiciary; With the Second Law to Repeal Small Local Courts of March 7, 1973, the local courts in Neuenhaus and Bad Bentheim were dissolved. The Nordhorn district court was now the only district court in the district.
building
The first district court in Bad Bentheim was at Wilhelmsstrasse 43. The prison was also nearby. The district court was used from 1857 to 1900. When the premises became too small, a new district court was built from Bentheim sandstone on Schüttorfer Straße. It was completed in 1899 and moved into in 1900.
The new building has largely been preserved in its original state today. The prison complex attached to the district court could accommodate up to 30 prisoners. It was closed in 1950 and then rebuilt. The courtroom was modernized in the mid-1960s. For this purpose, the barriers were removed, the accessories area and the judges' table were modernized, and local coats of arms and some symbols of Justitia were removed.
On July 1, 1973, the district court was closed. The tax office temporarily used the house until the tax authorities moved.
The building is a listed building and is privately owned.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Law on the court constitution of November 8, 1850 ( Collection of Laws for the Kingdom of Hanover, p. 207 )
- ^ Hanoverian legislation on state and municipal administration, 1852, pp. 32, 75, online
- ↑ Directory of the higher courts, annex to the ordinance for the implementation of §§ 14.15 and 35 of the law on the court constitution of November 8, 1850 of August 7, 1852, printed in: Gerhard Adolf Wilhelm Leonhardt: Die Justizgesetzgebung des Kingdom of Hanover: under special Consideration of government and class motives for practical use, Volume 3, 1852, p. 135 online
- ↑ Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt 1973, pp. 61–65.
- ↑ Herbert Lange, Steffen Burkert: Mute witnesses. Monuments and cultural sites in the Upper County of Bentheim . Grafschafter Nachrichten, S. 53-57 .
