Lennestadt District Court

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New construction of the courthouse
Previous building (demolished in 2015)

The Lennestadt District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of four district courts in the district of the Siegen District Court .

Seat and District of the Court

The court has its seat in Lennestadt , North Rhine-Westphalia . The 387 km² judicial district includes the area of ​​the city of Lennestadt as well as that of the municipalities of Finnentrop and Kirchhundem with a total of around 60,000 inhabitants.

As an agricultural court, the Lennestadt District Court is responsible for the districts of Lennestadt and Olpe.

The trade , association and cooperative registers are kept at the Siegen District Court , which is also responsible for insolvency proceedings . Jury and detention matters are assigned to the Olpe District Court . Dunning procedures are handled by the Hagen District Court as the central dunning court . The partnership register is kept at the Essen District Court .

building

The court is located in the district of Grevenbrück at Kölner Straße 104 . This is a new building that had become necessary because the old building on Lehmbergstrasse no longer complied with current safety standards and there were space problems - for example, the parking lot situation was unsatisfactory and the old court only had a conference room. It was demolished in 2015 to provide additional space for residential construction.

The new location, two minutes' walk from the Grevenbrück train station and bus station, offers enough parking spaces for employees and visitors, is barrier-free and has two conference rooms with an area of ​​1,100 m². Business has been in the new building since December 12, 2007.

history

The Bilstein judicial office had been part of the Olpe District Court and forerunner of the Lennestadt District Court since 1818 . In 1879, with the introduction of today's court structure, the transfer from Bilstein to Förde (today Lennestadt-Grevenbrück). In 1958 the new court building on Lehmbergstrasse was built. The Kirchhundem district court, which was dissolved in 1970, was assigned to the Lennestadt district court. Since the end of 2007 the place of jurisdiction has been Kölner Straße.

Superior courts

The District Court of Siegen is superordinate to the Lennestadt District Court. The competent higher regional court is the higher regional court Hamm .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 31.3 "  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 59.4"  E