Leipzig District Court

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District Court Leipzig (2009)

The Leipzig District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of a total of 30 district courts in the Free State of Saxony .

history

Former district court in Peterssteinweg (left in the picture, 1911)

In 1879, after the Courts Constitution Act came into force, the district court replaced the Leipzig District Court and the Leipzig I and II court offices. At that time, the court was responsible for both the city of Leipzig and 79 rural communities. After the local court in Taucha was dissolved , it took over its duties in 1933. In the Third Reich , the Leipzig District Court was also the only hereditary health court in the Leipzig Regional Court district. In 1943 it also took over the business of the Markranstädt and Zwenkau local courts . In the course of the reorganization of the judiciary in the GDR , the court was dissolved in 1952. Its tasks were taken over by the newly established district courts of the city districts of Leipzig and the district court Leipzig-Land. The Royal Saxon District Court, built in 1860, was located in Peterssteinweg . The Leipzig high treason trial took place before this court in 1872 , a memorial plaque on the successor building reminds of this. In the course of the construction of the “justice block” opposite the Reichsgericht building , which began in 1874 , the old district court was replaced by a new building, the Royal Saxon District Court, built from 1877 to 1881 by master builder Emil Anton Buschick and senior building officer Hugo Nauck . The building at Peterssteinweg 8, which was expanded in 1890, later served the University of Leipzig . The rooms on the first floor were used by the Institute for Art Education (now the Institute for Art Education ). Two departments of the district court were located in the regional court building at Elisenstrasse 64.

The newly created district court in Leipzig after German reunification initially had its seat at Angerstrasse 40-44 in the Altlindenau district . In 1999 it was relocated to Bernhard-Göring-Straße 64 in Südvorstadt .

Former district court (1908)

The building erected by Theodor Kösser from 1902 to 1906 in Bernhard-Göring-Strasse (until 1950 Elisenstrasse) formerly housed the Royal Saxon Regional Court. The large four-wing complex in neo-renaissance forms served exclusively as a courthouse until after the Second World War . After severe destruction in the Second World War, a greatly simplified reconstruction took place without the two polygonal corner towers and without the lively roof landscape with its Renaissance gables. The building now belonged to the VEB Bau- und Montagekombinat Süd , but the cell wing at the back between Arndtstrasse and Alfred-Kästner-Strasse was still used as a correctional facility. After the dissolution of the combine, Jürgen Schneider bought the property. After Schneider's bankruptcy, a bank bought the property, which finally came into the possession of the Free State of Saxony on December 31, 1996 through an exchange agreement. Before the local court moved in, the building complex was extensively renovated, and the cell wing at the rear was demolished. In its place, a new building for 300 employees of the Leipzig public prosecutor's office is under construction.

The land registry department of the local court is located at Schongauerstraße 5 in the Paunsdorf administrative center in the immediate vicinity of the Paunsdorf Center .

Jurisdiction and jurisdiction

The judicial district of the Leipzig District Court comprises the area of ​​the independent city of Leipzig ( Section 1, Paragraph 4, Annex No. 16 of the Saxon Justice Act). About 505,000 people lived in this area in 2006. In addition to its jurisdiction, the Leipzig District Court has the following additional responsibilities:

Employees

The Leipzig District Court has 521 employees (as of December 31, 2010). Among them are 74 judges, 133 civil servants in the higher service, 107 civil servants in the middle service, 20 civil servants in the simple service, 34 bailiffs, 151 employees and 2 trainees. The proportion of female employees is 76.0%.

Superior courts

The Leipzig Regional Court is superordinate to the Leipzig District Court . The Dresden Higher Regional Court and the Federal Court of Justice are superordinate in the next instance .

The Leipzig District Court is - along with the Chemnitz and Dresden District Courts - one of the three presidential district courts in Saxony. Supervision of the Leipzig District Court as a judicial administrative authority (ie non-judicial activity) is therefore incumbent on the President of the Dresden Higher Regional Court. The supervisory authority of all other local courts is the president of the respective local regional court and then the president of the higher regional court.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Archive Leipzig: Information on the archive holdings 20124 - Leipzig District Court .
  2. ^ Wolfgang Hocquél: Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-932900-54-9 , p. 204 ff.
  3. ↑ Media Service Saxony: Soon new district court Leipzig. Media information from April 2, 1998.
  4. ^ Sabine Kreuz: New Leipzig Public Prosecutor's Office is still under construction but too small. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 16, 2019, accessed on August 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ See also the ordinance of the Saxon State Ministry of Justice on judicial competences in judicial administrative matters (Judicial Competence Ordinance - JuZustVO) of May 6, 1999, SächsGVBl. P. 281.
  6. ↑ Statistics of the Leipzig District Court (PDF; 11 kB), accessed on June 29, 2011.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '22.15 "  N , 12 ° 22' 36.57"  O