District court Gelsenkirchen-Buer

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Seal of the Royal Prussian District Court Buer in Westphalia

The district court of Gelsenkirchen-Buer was one of two district courts in the independent city of Gelsenkirchen until the end of 2015 . It had its seat in the center of the until 1928 independent town Buer in Westphalia, today's Gelsenkirchen-Buer .

history

District court Buer in Westphalia (built 1904), in the background the tower of the Urbanuskirche .
Last service building of the former district court Gelsenkirchen-Buer (1973-2015)
The Gelsenkirchen Justice Center on Bochumer Straße has been the seat of the Gelsenkirchen District Court since 2016. The sculpture by Günter Tollmann was moved by Buer to the new location in the south of the city.

The court was established in 1879 as the Royal Prussian District Court Buer iW in what was then Recklinghausen . It was originally responsible for the area of ​​the Buer district and initially belonged to the district of the Münster regional court . The first staff included a judge, two clerks, a bailiff, a clerk and a bailiff who also worked as a prison guard and caretaker. On April 3, 1888, Buer was assigned to the Essen Regional Court , which in 1883 started its operations in the building on the Essen salt market in III. Hagen had recorded. Until 1904, the district court was housed in house Buer No. 126, the building at today's Hochstrasse 66. In addition to Buer and the Horst Office, which has been independent since 1891, the district court district also included the Gladbeck Office, which left the Buer office in 1885, and the Westerholt Office, which had been independent since 1911 . From 1904 to 1973 the newly built courthouse at Westerholter Straße 7 was the seat of the authority. As early as 1908, the court had ten judges. The District Court of Gladbeck was founded in 1913 and took over almost 47,700 court residents, while Buer remained responsible for over 103,000 residents in Buer, Horst and Westerholt.

After the merger of Buer, Horst and Gelsenkirchen to form the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer in 1928, the court initially continued under the name of Buer District Court (while the city was called Gelsenkirchen from May 1930 onwards). Due to notorious space problems, the search for alternative accommodation began early on: departments of the court were temporarily housed in the old hospital on the east side of the Urbanuskirche and between 1956 and 1968 in rented rooms of the former cathedral café. The court remained responsible for the area of ​​the former town of Buer and the municipality of Horst, after the division of Gelsenkirchen into districts, this corresponded to the districts of Gelsenkirchen-North, Gelsenkirchen-East and Gelsenkirchen-West. Westerholt, which had been free from office since 1934 and was elevated to town status in 1939, still belonged to the district of the local court until 1974. The district court of Gelsenkirchen, which was also established in 1879, was responsible for the southern districts of Gelsenkirchen-Mitte and Gelsenkirchen-Süd .

In 1968, planning began for a new building; the laying of the foundation stone for the new building made of glass, steel and concrete on Goldbergstraße took place in May 1971. The modern building, which had six conference rooms, interrogation rooms and premises for the land registry, was moved into in 1973. The old Buersche courthouse was demolished in the same year. In the course of the municipal reorganization through the Ruhr Area Law , the previous city of Westerholt (which was now part of the city of Herten and the district court district of Recklinghausen ) left the district court district in January 1975. The court, which is now only competent in the Gelsenkirchen city area, has been called the Gelsenkirchen-Buer District Court since that time . The Gelsenkirchen-Buer District Court recently employed 14 judges (as of 2008). After the local court was repealed at the end of 2015, the last used courthouse is also to be demolished. The development of a high-quality residential area is planned at the attractive location on the Goldberg.

The court belonged to the regional court district of Essen and was therefore subordinate to the higher regional court of Hamm .

architectural art

In front of the office building at Goldbergstrasse 89, while the Gelsenkirchen-Buer District Court was in existence, there was a stele-like mobile sculpture made of movable steel cylinders without a title (1973) by the Gelsenkirchen sculptor Günter Tollmann . With the move in January 2016, this plastic was moved in front of the new justice center in the south of Gelsenkirchen.

management

The last full district court director was Bernd Wedig, who took over the office in 2010 and moved to the Gladbeck district court in 2014. After the decision to dissolve the Gelsenkirchen-Buer District Court was resolved in 2011, proper management was no longer installed after Wedig's departure (most recently, acting head of the authorities was Nicola Brand). Wedig's predecessor was Irene Rezori, the first female judge ever to work at the Gelsenkirchen-Buer district court since 1978, who rose to become the director of the district court in 2001 as the first wife and successor to Klaus Mettens and then headed the Marl district court until 2015 .

Repeal

With the completion of the newly created Justice Center Gelsenkirchen at the Gelsenkirchen Science Park in the south of the city , the two district courts previously existing in the Gelsenkirchen city area were merged; the district court of Gelsenkirchen-Buer was dissolved at the turn of 2015/2016. Since then, the district court of Gelsenkirchen has been solely responsible for the city of Gelsenkirchen. The move to the new justice center in Gelsenkirchen at Bochumer Straße 79 took place on January 18, 2016 as planned. Applications could still be submitted up to and including January 20, 2016 in the old office building of the former Gelsenkirchen-Buer District Court, which acted as a branch of the Gelsenkirchen District Court for this transition period. The meeting operations were gradually relocated in the course of January and have been taking place exclusively at the new location since January 27, 2016.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b An office with numerous addresses . Report in the WAZ from January 2, 2016, accessed on February 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ The district court is facing the last move . Report in the WAZ from January 28, 2015, accessed on February 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ Homepage of the Gelsenkirchen-Buer District Court, accessed on July 18, 2013.
  4. ↑ Announcement by the press office of the City of Gelsenkirchen on August 21, 2015 (invitation to the public hearing); on the status of the urban development draft for the “subsequent use of the Buer District Court” cf. the official project page for the expansion of the Am Goldberg residential park .
  5. ↑ Judge Langer's picture is missing . Report in the WAZ from January 28, 2015, accessed on February 18, 2016.
  6. ↑ Jörn Stender: Logistical challenge for Gelsenkirchen dishes. In: WAZ of January 7, 2016, accessed on February 21, 2016.
  7. ↑ The Buersche Justitia . Report in the WAZ from February 19, 2008, accessed on February 19, 2016.
  8. ↑ The Buer District Court is now history . Report in the WAZ from January 2, 2016, accessed on February 18, 2016.
  9. ↑ Note on the court website ( memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 16, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '49.3 "  N , 7 ° 3' 48.9"  E