Bremen-Blumenthal District Court

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The main building of the district court, July 2011
Annex B (former service villa), July 2011

The Bremen-Blumenthal District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of three district courts in the district of the Bremen Regional Court and thus the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

Seat and District of the Court

The seat of the court is Bremen-Blumenthal . Within the state of Bremen, it is responsible for the districts of Blumenthal , Burglesum and Vegesack, which make up the Bremen-Nord district . The Bremen District Court is responsible for the rest of the city of Bremen .

Material jurisdiction

The court is responsible for civil, family, criminal, land register , custody, inheritance and enforcement matters within the framework of the tasks assigned by law to the local courts .

In 2015 there were 47 employees at the Bremen-Blumenthal District Court.

Superior courts

The Bremen Regional Court is directly superior to the Bremen-Blumenthal District Court . The AG Bremen-Blumenthal belongs to the district of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Bremen .

History of the Blumenthal District Court

Blumenthal District Court 1899

Since 1436 there has been a separate jurisdiction in Blumenthal, when the Blomendal office began its administrative activities and, in accordance with the customs of the time, judicial activities were also carried out by legally trained judicial officers ( Drosten ). The office was pledged to Bremen. In 1654 the office had to be ceded to Sweden together with the Neuenkirchen court, but it still belonged to the jurisdiction of Bremen. With the Second Stade settlement , the Blumenthal office fell to the Electorate of Hanover , which fell to Prussia in 1866 after the German War between Prussia and Austria and its allies. This time the jurisdiction followed, even if the patronage right remained with the City Council of Bremen.

In 1852, the jurisdiction and administration in Blumenthal were separated and made organizationally independent. Despite the organizational separation, the court in Blumenthal continued to share the Haus Blomdal building until the end of the 19th century . The court had a jury room, a cash register and several other workrooms there. In the place of the current main building of the Bremen-Blumenthal District Court, there was a prison during this time.

The population growth and rapid industrialization in the Lower Weser region ultimately made it necessary to build a new court building. This was inaugurated in 1899 and subsequently expanded several times.

In 1939 the municipalities of Grohn, Schönebeck, Aumund, Blumenthal and Farge in the Osterholz district were spun off from Prussia and incorporated into the city of Bremen. The previous district court of Lesum was dissolved and the district court of Blumenthal became a Bremen district court again on January 1, 1943.

On the instructions of the American military government on June 21, 1945, the Bremen-Blumenthal District Court resumed its activities on July 14, 1945, which had been interrupted by the end of the war. At first there was a struggle between the British and American occupation authorities to integrate the Blumenthal District Court into the British zone of occupation (from which the state of Lower Saxony emerged ) or into the American zone of occupation (which later formed the state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ). Finally, the head of the Legal Division presented the British headquarters that, under an agreement of 10 December 1945 Court of Appeal , the courts -Bezirk Hamburg Regional Court Bremen , Bremen District Court, District Court Wesermünde, District Court Blumenthal and, Amtsgericht Bremerhaven should include, from which with the establishment of the higher regional court in Bremen developed the higher regional court district of Bremen.

Considerations by the Bremen Senate in the 1980s to close the Bremen-Blumenthal District Court for cost reasons led to massive protests in North Bremen. For political reasons, a guarantee of existence was given for this district court. With effect from January 1, 1989, the Burglesum local office area was removed from the district of the Bremen District Court and incorporated into the Blumenthal District Court district in order to give the District Court an economically more sensible size.

building

The address of the Blumenthal District Court is: Landrat-Christians-Straße 65a / 67/69, 28779 Bremen .

The listed ensemble of the district court consists of the main building, the former court prison and the former service villa. It was built from 1896 to 1899 and expanded in 1913/1914. The buildings took on new architectural reform tendencies, with a return to local building traditions. The current main building of the district court was inaugurated on February 11, 1899. It was built with the financial contribution of the communities of Blumenthal, Rönnebeck and Lüßum as well as private donations by the Blumenthal master builder Lohmüller for 7,250 marks using the foundations of the former court prison of the district court. At the beginning of the First World War , these rooms also turned out to be too small. As a result, a new prison was built behind the district court building and the rooms previously used as a judicial prison in the district court building were converted for court purposes.

Judicial prison with the wall of the prison yard

In 1968 a house next to the main building, which was built in 1896 and originally housed the judge's official residence, was converted into an outbuilding for the court (today House B).

Since the judicial prison behind the courthouse was hardly used anymore, it was converted for the land registry of the district court district. The inauguration took place in June 1997 after a three-year renovation period.

Since August 5, 2010, the Blumenthal District Court ensemble has been a listed building.

Judicial prison

In 1933 the judicial prison of the Blumenthal District Court, which had previously also served as a police prison for the Blumenthal district , became an SA " protective custody " camp. The legal basis for the SA's takeover of the court prison was the emergency ordinance with which the SA was made an auxiliary police after the Reichstag fire .

On March 12, 1933, thirty KPD officials were already in this “protective custody” camp. At the end of March 1933, 90 people from the labor movement were already imprisoned there (87 communists and three social democrats) - among them the later local office managers Wilhelm Ahrens (1898–1974) and Willy Dehnkamp (1903–1985).

A plaque on the main building of the local court commemorates the several hundred political opponents of the Nazi regime who were imprisoned here in 1933/34 and then had to make their way to prisons and concentration camps .

On October 13, 2008, the advisory board of the Blumenthal local office decided to put up another memorial plaque for Margarete Göhner, who was murdered in the court prison in December 1936.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silke Helwig: In the name of the people . In: Weser-Kurier from December 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ Three in one go - Bremen has three new cultural monuments. State Office for Monument Preservation, accessed on August 10, 2010 .
  3. ↑ The entire system with the main building components , Service villa and prison in the monument database of the LfD.
  4. ↑ Ulrich Schröder: Rotes Band am Hammerand: History of the workers' movement in the Osterholz district from the beginning until 1933 . Donat Verlag , Bremen 2007.
  5. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , page 216
  6. ^ Die Norddeutsche from October 15, 2008

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