District court Remscheid

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District court Remscheid: main building and extension (left).

The District Court of Remscheid is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of five district courts in the district of the District Court of Wuppertal , alongside Mettmann , Solingen , Velbert and Wuppertal .

Judicial district

The District Court of Remscheid is locally responsible for the independent city of Remscheid . Around 120,000 people live in the district of the court.

Jurisdiction

The court performs the tasks assigned to the local courts in accordance with the Courts Constitution Act. A pilot project for accelerated youth criminal proceedings is currently taking place at the Remscheid District Court. In this context, in September 2007 a related youth prosecutor of the public prosecutor in Wuppertal an office in the District Court building.

Courthouse

The court is housed in a building at Alleestrasse 119 (corner of Freiheitstrasse) in 42853 Remscheid; an extension was inaugurated in 2006. The departments of the district court as a family court were until 2006 in the building of the former district court Lennep (Bahnhofstrasse 12), which had lost its independence in the 1980s. In the end, this outbuilding was the oldest still-used district court building in Germany.

history

By 1464 at the latest, there was a court court in Remscheid with jurisdiction in some cases as far as the Cronenberger and Lenneper areas. In addition, since then at the latest there has been a regional court responsible for violent and criminal offenses and disputes over land ownership. The parties could turn to the regional chamber in Burg an der Wupper to appeal. The courts used different seals, in the seal for the court court a water wheel was depicted next to the mountain lion (the court was also responsible for water disputes at Eschbach and Morsbach ), in the seal of the regional court a scythe was depicted next to the lion.

Former Royal District Court in Schützenstrasse

Remscheid had belonged to the district of the Ronsdorf Peace Court since 1821 ; the court in Düsseldorf was initially responsible for more extensive criminal cases and appeal negotiations, and the Elberfeld district court from 1834 . Since 1839 the community tried to have its own peace court, which was rejected by the Ministry of Justice and the Prussian king for reasons of cost. After the manufacturer Josua Hasenclever was able to present the community's concerns at a reception at the Prussian king in 1842, a peace court for Remscheid was set up in January 1843. The venue was the old town hall on Elberfelder Strasse, roughly at the level of today's Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium, where a small prison was set up in the basement. In 1876, due to a lack of space, the court moved to the first floor of the former trade school on Alleestrasse, at the corner of Scharffstrasse. In 1879, when the Courts Constitution Act came into force, the Peace Court was converted into a District Court. A population growth of 50% and the increase in legal proceedings that arose in disputes over the extensive construction work on the Eschbachtalsperre and the Müngstener Bridge made it necessary to move to a newly built courthouse on Schützenstrasse in 1893. This building also proved to be too small after almost 20 years, and further complaints arose about structural inadequacies. In 1912 a new building was planned on the site at the intersection of Freiheitstrasse and Alleestrasse, which had become vacant after the hospital moved to Burger Strasse, but which was only completed after the First World War and was occupied in 1924. From 1940 to 2006 was in the district court, a youth detention center , as a result of the conversion in 2006 to in 1906 Luettringhausen existing detention center was moved. The former courthouse on Schützenstrasse still bears the inscription Royal District Court and is used by the city.

Instance move

The District Court of Wuppertal , the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf and the Federal Court of Justice are superordinate to the Remscheid District Court.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Jürgen Roth: History of our city, Remscheid with Lennep and Lüttringhausen , RGA-Buchverlag, Remscheid, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940491-01-5 , p. 177 ff.
  2. ^ Hans Jürgen Roth: History of our city, Remscheid with Lennep and Lüttringhausen. RGA-Buchverlag, Remscheid 2008, ISBN 978-3-940491-01-5 , p. 181 f.
  3. ↑ Schützenstraße 57 - former district court , article about the monument of the month April / May 2014 on the website of the city of Remscheid

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 52.5 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 43"  E