District Court Höchst (Frankfurt am Main)

District court Höchst am Main

The formerly independent district court of Höchst am Main in Frankfurt-Höchst has been a branch of the district court of Frankfurt am Main since 1943 . Outwardly, the Frankfurt city center and Frankfurt Höchst locations form a single unit. The allocation of responsibilities is determined internally according to the business allocation plan.

Jurisdiction

As a branch of the Frankfurt am Main District Court , the highest location is local for cases from the communities of Eschborn (including the Niederhöchstadt district), Hattersheim (including the Okriftel and Eddersheim districts), Hofheim (including the Diedenbergen, Langenhain, Lorsbach, Marxheim, Wallau and Wildsachsen), Kriftel, Liederbach and Sulzbach as well as the western Frankfurt districts of Griesheim, Höchst, Nied, Schwanheim, Sindlingen, Sossenheim, Unterliederbach and Zeilsheim.

history

Höchst was the seat of an office under Kurmainz as well as in the Duchy of Nassau , the Amt Höchst . This was both an administrative authority and a court of first instance. After the March Revolution in 1848, the administration was reorganized. By law of April 4, 1849, administration and jurisdiction were separated at a lower level in Nassau. The reform came into effect on July 1, 1849. 10 district offices were established for administration , the offices continued as judicial offices (i.e. courts of first instance). The administrative tasks of the Höchst office were performed by the Höchst district office , the jurisdiction of the Höchst judicial office. However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

With the annexation of Nassau by Prussia , the offices in their old form were also dissolved and replaced by circles. In 1867 , the Höchst Office together with the Wiesbaden Office , the Hochheim Office and parts of the free imperial city of Frankfurt and Hesse make up the Main District . Only as part of this reorganization will administration and jurisdiction be separated. For the jurisdiction in the first instance, which was previously carried out by the office, the judicial officials in the offices were initially responsible and the Höchst District Court was formed on September 1, 1867. The higher court was now the Wiesbaden district court .

With the law of March 4, 1878 and the ordinance of July 26, 1878, the Höchst District Court was upheld. The second instance was the Wiesbaden Regional Court .

The incorporation of Höchst to Frankfurt am Main in 1928 led to a name change. From April 1, 1928, the name of the district court was Frankfurt-Höchst District Court . On January 1, 1930, the court was transferred from the district of the Wiesbaden Regional Court to that of the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court. On June 21, 1943, the Höchst District Court was dissolved and continued as part of the Frankfurt am Main District Court. From autumn 1945 the previous district court was an independent department of the Frankfurt district court and received full litigation competence on July 20, 1947.

building

The building is a cultural monument in representative forms of the Neo-Renaissance , it was built in 1913 according to a design by the district architect O. Meffert.

Right next to the district court building, a 1911 built was prison that for remand prisoners was used in 2011 and closed. Their most prominent prisoner was the stock market speculator Nick Leeson , who spent several months there in custody for extradition in 1995 .

Web links

Commons : Frankfurt-Höchst District Court  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Höchst branch of the Frankfurt am Main local court
2. ↑ ordinary-gerichtsbarkeit.hessen.de accessed on Aug. 19, 2019
3. ↑ Law of April 4, 1849 (VBl p. 87); Law, the execution of the law on the separation of the administration of justice from the administration in the lower instance on May 31, 1849, (VBl p. 409)
4. ↑ Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160)
5. ↑ VO of June 26, 1867, GS p. 1094
6. ^ Eckhart G. Franz , Hanns Hubert Hofmann, Meinhard Schaab: Court organization in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse in the 19th and 20th centuries (= official spatial organization since 1800. Basic study 14 = publications by the Academy for spatial research and regional planning. Contributions 100) . ARL, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-88838-224-6 , pp. 212, 214.
7. ↑ Law on the establishment of the higher regional courts and the regional courts of March 4, 1878 ( PrGS 1878, pp. 109–124 )
8. ↑ Ordinance regarding the establishment of local courts of July 26, 1878 ( PrGS 1878, pp. 275–283 )
9. ^ Eckhart G. Franz , Hanns Hubert Hofmann, Meinhard Schaab: Court organization in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse in the 19th and 20th centuries (= official spatial organization since 1800. Basic study 14 = publications by the Academy for spatial research and regional planning. Contributions 100) . ARL, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-88838-224-6 , pp. 216, 218.
10. ^ Eckhart G. Franz , Hanns Hubert Hofmann, Meinhard Schaab: Court organization in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse in the 19th and 20th centuries (= official spatial organization since 1800. Basic study 14 = publications by the Academy for spatial research and regional planning. Contributions 100) . ARL, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-88838-224-6 , pp. 220, 223.
11. ↑ Frankfurt-Höchst. Zuckschwerdtstrasse 58 In: Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen , State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , accessed on December 21, 2016.
12. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse of June 20, 2008: "Highest prison closes"
13. ↑ Höchst Kreisblatt : JVA Höchst: The jail rests quietly  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ "I could smell the money" . In: Der Spiegel, Hamburg, February 12, 1996. p. 102.

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 25.2 ″  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 54.1 ″  E