Karlsruhe District Court

District court in Karlsruhe at Schlossplatz 23

The Karlsruhe District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction in Baden-Württemberg .

Seat and District of the Court

The district court has its seat in Karlsruhe . The judicial district includes the urban district of Karlsruhe with the exception of the areas assigned to the district court Durlach according to the court organization law of Baden-Württemberg, as well as the towns and communities of Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen , Linkenheim-Hochstetten , Rheinstetten and Stutensee from the district of Karlsruhe .

tasks

The court performs the duties assigned to it by law. In addition to the jurisprudence in numerous first instance cases of civil and criminal justice and all family law cases as well as an enforcement court , this also applies to tasks of voluntary jurisdiction , with the exception of the function as a register court , which was given at the beginning of 2007 . Since the Karlsruhe District Court is the district court at the seat of a regional court , it also functions as the joint bankruptcy court of the Karlsruhe regional court district. The Karlsruhe District Court is the agricultural court for the Karlsruhe district court . Since January 1, 2013, the court has also been the central enforcement court for the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Courthouse

The court is currently housed in the premises of Schlossplatz 23 in Karlsruhe.

A branch is located at Lammstrasse 5 . This houses the civil departments, the enforcement departments and the departments of the family court. The information desk is also located in this building.

The branch in Akademiestraße, where the civil departments used to be, was closed in autumn 2007 (move to Lammstraße 5).

Superior courts

The Karlsruhe Regional Court , then the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court and finally the Federal Court of Justice , also in Karlsruhe, are superordinate to the court.

history

The founding date of the district court Karlsruhe is located in 1857. During the construction of an independent judiciary which until then the executive associated were offices independent and the City District Court and the Country District Court Karlsruhe formed, which were combined in 1864, Grand Ducal County Court. At that time, the court still resided in Adlerstrasse . After the premises there became too cramped, however, the court was granted permission to move to Akademiestraße , which today still houses a branch of the local court with several departments. In 1911 the rooms assigned to the district court in Akademiestrasse were enlarged again.

After the Second World War , the district court resumed its activities in the summer of 1945. In the years 1958–1962 the move to the domicile of the district court on Schlossplatz took place .

In 1970 the district court was constituted as an independent presidential court . In nominal terms, this means that the court has since been run by a president instead of a director. In terms of content, the structure of the authorities has been enhanced by the fact that the members of the higher judicial service employed at the district court are no longer subject to the supervision of the district court president, but instead the district court of Karlsruhe is subordinate to the district courts of the higher regional court of Karlsruhe. Of course, this has no influence on the train of justice.