Burgau District Court

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Former district court and current town hall of Burgau

The Burgau District Court was a Bavarian court of ordinary jurisdiction that existed from 1879 to 1959 and was based in the Swabian town of Burgau .

history

After the margraviate of Burgau came to Bavaria in 1806 , the seat of the Wettenhausen district court was relocated to Burgau in 1808 .

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act on October 1, 1879, a district court was established in Burgau, the district of which was from the previous district of Burgau with the municipalities of Burgau, Burtenbach , Deubach , Dürrlauingen , Ebersbach , Egenhofen , Eichenhofen , Ettenbeuren , Freihalden , Glöttweng , Goldbach , Großanhausen , Hafenhofen , Haldenwang , Hammerstetten , Jettingen ,Kemnat , Kleinbeuren , Konzenberg , Landensberg , Limbach , Mindelaltheim , Mönstetten , Oberknöringen , Oberwaldbach , Ried , Röfingen , Roßhaupten , Scheppach , Schnuttenbach , Schönenberg , Unterknöringen , Unterrohr , Waldkirch and Wettenhausen as well as the municipalities of Rechbergreuthen, which until then belonged to the city ​​and district court of Dillingen and Winterbach was formed. The next higher instance was the Augsburg Regional Court . Deubach and Ebersbach moved to the district of the Günzburg District Court on May 4, 1921 .

After the district court Burgau towards the end of World War II to the branch office of the District Court Gunzburg in District Court Memmingen downgraded and this measure had been confirmed in 1956, took place on July 1, 1959, the cancellation of this branch by decree of the Bavarian State Minister of Justice .

Courthouse

The court was located in what is now the town hall of Burgau at Court Road 8. The three-storey building with a flat hipped roof , corner risalits and plaster structure was built around 1880 in the neo-renaissance style.

literature

  • Bernt von Hagen, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Günzburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.91 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-589-6 , p. 59 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Highest Ordinance of April 2, 1879, concerning the determination of the court seats and the formation of the court districts ( GVBl. P. 388 )
  2. ↑ Burgau Regional Court. In: Royal. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Ackermann, Munich 1877, col. 1413-1416.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 475.
  4. ↑ 8. The Higher Regional Court, Regional Court and District Court districts of Bavaria . In: Bayerisches Statistisches Landesamt (publisher): Official place directory for Bavaria, edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Munich 1952, pp. 111 * -120 *.
  5. ↑ Ordinance on the establishment of local court branches of November 30, 1956 (GVBl. P. 294)
  6. ^ Ordinance on the district court branches of June 9, 1959 (GVBl. P. 178)
  7. ↑ List of monuments for Burgau (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 58.3 "  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 16.1"  E