District court Euskirchen
The Euskirchen District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and employs 192 people, including 16 judges. It is one of six local courts in the district of the Bonn Regional Court .
Seat and District of the Court
The court, based in Euskirchen, is responsible for the judicial district , which includes the cities of Euskirchen, Bad Münstereifel , Mechernich and Zülpich as well as the community of Weilerswist with a total of approx. 138,000 inhabitants. The district court also includes the central dunning department (ZEMA II), which is responsible for the entire higher regional court district of Cologne and processes around 1.2 million proceedings per year, including all dunning requests from Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Postbank . In addition, the Euskirchen District Court is responsible for agricultural matters in the Euskirchen and Schleiden District Court districts.
history
Euskirchen already had jurisdiction with a high and low court when it was granted city rights in 1302. With the entry into force of the Reich Justice Act on October 1, 1879, the Royal Prussian District Court of Euskirchen was founded and moved into a building on Kirchstrasse. After the district court had a building built on the site of the former Jewish cemetery in 1938, the district court has been located in Kölner Strasse since 1960.
As the second central dunning department in North Rhine-Westphalia, ZEMA II was founded in Euskirchen in April 1995 and moved into its own extension in March 2005.
Bomb attack
On March 9, 1994, 39-year-old Erwin Mikolajczyk carried out an attack on a branch of the Euskirchen District Court. In the courtroom, the man, whose appeal against a fine for bodily harm in the amount of 7200 DM had been rejected by the court, shot the audience with a pistol and then set off a bomb. The explosion devastated the courtroom and tore a hole in the building's outer wall. Seven people were killed in the attack, including the then 31-year-old judge Alexander Schäfer, two lawyers and the assassin himself. Eight other people were injured, some seriously.
In the entrance area of the main building, a plaque commemorates the incident. The attack prompted the judicial authorities of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to improve the security measures in courts.
The attack was filmed in the same year in the documentary drama Day of Reckoning - The Amokläufer von Euskirchen by the author Peter Keglevic with Christoph Waltz in the leading role. The first broadcast was on October 26, 1994 on RTL .
building
The first building of the district court was erected in Kirchstrasse in 1879 and an additional floor was added in 1900. In 1960 it was torn down and made space for an office of the Kreissparkasse Euskirchen . Since then, the newly built building has existed on Kölner Strasse, opposite the then district and today's city administration. In 2005 an extension was built in which the ZEMA II is housed.
Superior courts
The District Court of Bonn is superordinate to the Euskirchen District Court. The competent higher regional court is the higher regional court in Cologne .
See also
Web links
- Internet presence of the Euskirchen District Court
- Overview of the jurisprudence of the Euskirchen District Court
Individual evidence
- ↑ 20 years ago in the District Court Generalanzeiger Bonn on March 12, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 35.8 ″ N , 6 ° 47 ′ 49 ″ E