Salzwedel District Court

Salzwedel District Court

Formerly the old town hall of the Hanseatic town of Salzwedel in the Altmark, as a bourgeois representative brick shell in the style of the North German Renaissance, roof area provided with transepts - all gables designed as Gothic stepped gables

The Salzwedel District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction in Germany. It belongs to the district of the Stendal Regional Court and the Naumburg Higher Regional Court .

The seat of the court is Salzwedel .

In addition to the Hanseatic city of Salzwedel, its district includes the city of Arendsee , the spots Apenburg-Winterfeld and Diesdorf , as well as the communities of Beetzendorf , Dehre , Jübar , Kuhfelde , Rohrberg and Wallstawe , all of which belong to the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel . The remaining district area forms the district of the district court Gardelegen .

building

The district court is located in the building of the former town hall in the old town of Salzwedel. The house was built in 1509 on the foundations of a previous building, presumably the department store of the clothing tailors. The historic long-distance trade routes Magdeburg - Lübeck / Hamburg and Braunschweig - Hitzacker crossed on the square in front of the building .

It was used as a town hall until 1713. In the course of the unification of the old and new town of Salzwedel, the town hall of the new town was used as a common town hall. From 1855 the building served as a judicial building.

In the east gable of the house is a Madonna in a halo and Saint Christopher as the patron saint of the fords.

See also

• List of German courts
• List of courts in the state of Saxony-Anhalt

Web links

• Website of the Salzwedel District Court
• Overview of the jurisdiction of the Salzwedel District Court

Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '0 "  N , 11 ° 9' 4.6"  E