District Court of Kappeln

The district court of Kappeln was a court of ordinary jurisdiction until March 31, 2007 and one of five district courts (AG) in the district of the regional court of Flensburg .

Building of the former district court of Kappeln

Seat and District of the Court

The seat of the court was Kappeln an der Schlei . Around 35,000 residents live in the former district court district of the AG Kappeln and around 20 lawyers were admitted there, around half of whom are also notaries .

Personnel and Responsibility

staff

The AG Kappeln was with 3 judges and 25 employees the smallest district court in the regional court district of the regional court Flensburg and one of the smallest local courts in Schleswig-Holstein .

Jurisdiction

The Kappeln District Court was responsible for civil, family, criminal, land register, supervision, inheritance and enforcement matters. Property disputes up to a value of € 5,000, rental property as well as criminal and family matters were also negotiated.

For register matters , the AG Flensburg and for creating most recently for the district court district Kappeln payment orders in the automated process, the AG Schleswig responsible.

building

The courthouse of the former district court is located at Richtstrasse 1, 24376 Kappeln. The building is a listed building .

Superior courts

The regional court in Flensburg was directly superordinate to the AG Kappeln. This in turn was and is the higher regional court of Schleswig-Holstein in Schleswig .

history

Due to a royal Danish privilege of March 3, 1846, Kappeln had received unrestricted spot justice. The bailiff appointed by the king was responsible on the one hand for the entire administration, on the other hand he was the first instance judge in all court cases in his district, which is why his office required the “major legal state examination ”. Kappeln thus became the place of jurisdiction.

With the German-Danish War of 1864, Kappeln came under Prussian administration, with the law of December 24, 1866, after the Prussian-Austrian War of 1866, the entire area of Schleswig-Holstein was united with the Prussian state. Hugo Emil von Buchwald (born November 27, 1810 in Schleswig ) remained in office after the end of Danish rule and was commissioned to introduce the Prussian court system in Kappeln on September 1, 1867. Since the area of the Kappeln area belonged to two districts - the Flensburg district on the one hand and the Schleswig district on the other - two district courts were initially set up in Kappeln. Judge of the district court of Kappeln-Schleswig was the former Pellworm Landschreiber Chemnitz, judge of the district court of Kappeln-Flensburg a Herr von Buchwald. Both courts met in the town hall of Kappeln. The district court of Flensburg was superordinate . As a result of the enactment of the Courts Constitution Act of January 27, 1877 and the associated standardization of the judiciary in the German Empire , the two local courts were merged into one.

On November 1, 1884, this district court and prison building moved into the newly built courthouse, which was used by the AG Kappeln until the end.

As part of the reform of the local court structure in Schleswig-Holstein, AG Kappeln was dissolved on March 31, 2007 because it was too small. Parts of the previous district court district of Kappeln were added to the district court of Eckernförde and thus to the district court district of Kiel , the rest to the district court districts of Schleswig and Flensburg .

The boundary between the parts of the district court district of Kappeln allocated to the AG Eckernförde became the Schlei. The towns of Kappeln and Arnis , which belong to the Schleswig-Flensburg district, became part of AG Schleswig ; to AG Flensburg because of the traffic connection the areas of the offices of Gelting and Steinbergkirche .

For details of the reform, reference is made to the corresponding reform concept of the Ministry of Justice and the minutes of the session of the Legal Affairs Committee of the State Parliament on December 7, 2005.