Koenigswinter District Court

Koenigswinter District Court (2009)

Old building of the district court (2013)

Königswinter is the seat of the Königswinter District Court , which is responsible for the cities of Bad Honnef and Königswinter in the right bank of the Rhine-Sieg district . Around 66,000 people live in the 124 km² judicial district .

history

The district court goes back to a peace court founded in 1811 after the introduction of the code civils in the Rhineland . In 1843 the mayorships of Königswinter , Menden and Oberkassel belonged to his judicial district . (see court organization in the Grand Duchy of Berg )

Due to a royal decree of June 30, 1834, the Königswinter Peace Court also assumed the function of a Rhine toll court .

On October 1, 1879, when the Courts Constitution Act came into force, the Peace Court was converted into a district court , and the following year it moved into a new building on Drachenfelsstrasse (architect: Franz Bachem). In 1890 a two-story prison building was added. During the Second World War in the second half of 1944, Cologne's Special Court I was moved to the Koenigswinter District Court, and death sentences were presumably pronounced here during the negotiations in the final months of the war. In 1954 the prison building was converted into an office building and connected to the front district court building for use as a back building. Both original buildings of the district court, which were supplemented by an extension in 2002, are brick buildings and are listed as historical monuments , as they represent a typical solution for the Prussian district courts built in smaller communities.

Superior courts

The regional court above the Koenigswinter District Court is the Bonn Regional Court , which in turn is subordinate to the Cologne Higher Regional Court .

literature

Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , Monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 129.

Web links

Commons : Koenigswinter District Court - collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845, p. XIV ( digitized version ).
↑ The history of the Siebengebirge region at a glance , Heimatverein Siebengebirge eV
^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 602 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
↑ Chronicle of the Judgment. Koenigswinter District Court, accessed on January 20, 2016 .
↑ List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A4

50.674471 7.196453Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 28.1 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 47.2 ″ E

[OV1846-1] Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845, p. XIV ( digitized version ).

[2] The history of the Siebengebirge region at a glance , Heimatverein Siebengebirge eV

[3] Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 602 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).

[4] Chronicle of the Judgment. Koenigswinter District Court, accessed on January 20, 2016 .

[5] List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A4