Erlangen District Court

New construction of the district court

Old building of the district court

The Erlangen District Court is the competent district court in the Erlangen District Court district . It is one of seven local courts in the regional court district of Nuremberg-Fürth and one of 17 local courts in the higher regional court district of Nuremberg .

General

The Erlangen District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction . The district court as such in several departments for civil matters , criminal matters , family matters , matters of guardianship , care matters , estate matters and land registry divided. In addition, the district court building houses a branch of the public prosecutor's office at the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court .
Since October 16, 2017, the district court has been appointed by the director of the district court Dr. Margit Zorn headed.

District Court District

The district court district of the Erlangen District Court comprises the area of the city of Erlangen and the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt .

Responsibilities

Only the peculiarities of the Erlangen District Court are mentioned here, for the main article see District Court .

Fine proceedings

The local court also decides on appeals against fines within the framework of fine proceedings . Here it mainly decides on appeals against fines issued by the Central Fines Office in the Bavarian Police Administration Office .

bailiff

The bailiffs are assigned at the Erlangen District Court based on the debtor's place of residence . In the city of Erlangen, the districts of the bailiffs are divided according to street names, in the other cases according to the individual locations.

Employees

The Erlangen District Court currently employs 19 judges , 25 judicial officers, 21 second-level officials, 32 employees, 8 bailiffs, 11 police officers and 1 female worker. (As of November 1, 2015)

Projects

A still visible project of the district court was "Youth and Justice", in which in 2003, under the direction of Gisela Summerer, the walls of the district court were decorated with works of art by students from high schools in the judicial district.

Since the transition between the new and old building was completed at the end of 2012, there have been annually changing exhibitions. So far, for example, works by painters or photographers from the region have been shown here, but also pictures of people with dementia.

History and building history

Former main entrance at the old building with imperial eagle and swastika removed in 1945

Today's main entrance to the new building

The district court Erlangen emerged in 1879 from the existing since 1812. District Court earlier order Erlangen . At the beginning, the district court was only responsible for the area of the city of Erlangen and the district of Erlangen . However, this changed by the resolution of the District Court Gräfenberg in 1927, through which the majority was come whose district including the city of Gräfenberg. The district court was then housed in the former knight academy in the main street of the city of Erlangen. In 1938 at the time of National Socialism , the construction of the courthouse within the square of Siebold-, Schuh-, Mozart- and Hofmannstraße began. Due to the Second World War , the construction work was delayed so much that the building could only be fully occupied on July 1, 1941. After the end of the war, the district court building was initially occupied by American departments. There was no administration of justice at that time. After it reopened on September 10, 1945, only two judges and a few court assessors were active.

The district court became one of the larger courts in 1965 due to the increase in the population of the district to 151,670. On July 1, 1973, the branch of the Forchheim District Court in Höchstadt an der Aisch was dissolved and its proceedings were assigned to the Erlangen District Court. The current district court district was created through the reform of the territorial law and the number of residents increased to 185,000.

Construction of the extension began on May 29, 1978, and was ready for occupancy in 1980. From April 21, 1981, the old building was renovated. This work was completed on November 5, 1982. Since then, the district court has had an old and a new building. The oldest meeting room , meeting room 6, is housed in the old building . The remaining 5 conference rooms are housed in the new building. Conference rooms 4 and 5 are the larger conference rooms, which are also used for hearings by the jury. Access is only possible through the main entrance on Mozartstrasse.

On June 1, 2007, the land registry was moved to the premises of the former state central bank on Schuhstrasse.

Parent Instances

The regional court superordinate to the Erlangen district court is the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court . The Nuremberg Higher Regional Court is superordinate to this.

Web links

Commons : Erlangen District Court - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 458 .

49.59177 11.0099Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '30.4 " N , 11 ° 0' 35.6" E

[1] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 458 .