District court Meiningen

The meeting building in the Meiningen Justice Center. The district court is also located here.

The District Court of Meiningen is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and the largest of the six district courts in the judicial district of the District Court of Meiningen and one of 23 district courts in Thuringia .

Seat and District of the Court

The court has its seat in the district town of Meiningen in southern Thuringia . The judicial district extends to the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen (excluding Zella-Mehlis and Oberhof) with a total of 114,000 inhabitants.

In addition to the land registry , the Meiningen District Court has a commercial and association register and one of the four Thuringian insolvency courts , which is responsible for the dunning and insolvency proceedings in the judicial district of the Meiningen District Court.

Since January 1, 2013, the Meiningen District Court has also been the Central Enforcement Court for the State of Thuringia.

Buildings and staff

The district court resides together with the district court Meiningen, the public prosecutor's office Meiningen, the administrative court Meiningen and the social court Meiningen in the newly built Justice Center Meiningen at Lindenallee 15 north of the old town and the English Garden in the center of Meiningen. Here it is housed together with the land registry in the meeting building.

13 judges, 40 middle-class employees, 19 upper-class employees and seven bailiffs work at the Meiningen district court .

Superior courts

The district court of Meiningen is directly superior . The competent higher regional court is the higher regional court Jena .

history

The district court of Meiningen was founded on October 1, 1879 as one of 16 district courts in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . Until 1945 it was located in the Meiningen Regional Court building at Bismarckstrasse 14 (today Neu-Ulmer-Strasse). After it was destroyed in a bomb attack on February 23, 1945, the judicial authorities moved the district court to the former "Erbprinz" hotel in Sedanstrasse (today Ludwig-Chronegk-Strasse). When it was renamed the Meiningen District Court as part of an administrative reform and the formation of the districts in the GDR in 1952, it had to give up voluntary jurisdiction . After the German reunification in 1990, the court regained voluntary jurisdiction and was renamed “Meiningen District Court”. On June 3, 1995, there was an arson attack on the district court building, during which many files were destroyed. The district court was then moved to a city villa on Charlottenstrasse. In 2000, the move to the newly built Meiningen justice center took place on the site of the former main barracks .

As part of the reform of the district court districts in Thuringia with effect from April 1, 2006, the former district court of Schmalkalden was dissolved and assigned as a branch to the district court of Meiningen. The Schmalkalden branch was then closed on May 1, 2006.