Essen District Court

The Essen District Court , based in the city of Essen, is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of ten district courts in the district of the Essen District Court . Due to its size, the Essen District Court is a presidential court, the head of which is a president.

Jurisdiction and areas of responsibility

The judicial district covers the area of the city of Essen with the exception of the districts assigned to the district courts of Essen-Steele and Essen-Borbeck .

In addition, the Essen District Court is responsible for agricultural matters , the trade and cooperative register, as well as the foreclosure and compulsory administration proceedings of the Essen, Essen-Borbeck and Essen-Steele districts and for all insolvency matters of the Essen District Court.

The Essen District Court centrally manages the partnership register for the whole of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Superior courts

The Essen District Court, the Hamm Higher Regional Court and the Federal Court of Justice are superordinate to the Essen District Court.

management

Karl-Heinz Volesky has been the President of the court since September 2015. His predecessor was Jörg Heinrichs, who headed the court since 2012 and moved to the Dortmund District Court . Since the Essen District Court is a presidential court, further supervision lies directly with the President of the Hamm Higher Regional Court.

history

Since 1863 the district and city court on III. Hagen is based in the city center of Essen .

With the royal Prussian ordinance of July 26, 1878 in the announcement of August 19, 1878, the establishment of the Essen District Court was ordered for the Prussian states , in addition to 214 other local courts.

After the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, the Courts Constitution Act came into effect on October 1, 1879 , which, among other things, provided for the establishment of courts in the ordinary course of justice. The building was already too small due to the rapidly growing city of Essen, due to immigration for the mining and steel industry. From 1908 to 1913, a new courthouse with a baroque facade was built at today's location on Zweigertstrasse, which was destroyed in World War II and replaced by the current building in 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Press release of the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia from September 7, 2015: Karl-Heinz Volesky is the new President of the Essen District Court. (accessed April 13, 2017).
^ Essen District Court: History ; accessed on April 13, 2017