District court Schönebeck

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District court Schönebeck (Elbe)

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

The seat of the court is Schönebeck (Elbe) .

Architecture and history

The building complex at Friedrichstrasse 96 was built between 1909 and 1911 based on a design by construction officer Paul Thoemer from the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin. The three-story courthouse is right on the street. The building, built in the neo-renaissance style, has a five-axis central risalit , which is crowned by a high triangular gable. Both the triangular gable and the side gables are decorated with volutes .

The complex also includes a four-story prison wing in the courtyard, which is now used, as well as a house for the guards.

In March and April 1945, the court prison served as an external workstation for the Gommern prison with 70 "night and fog" prisoners, mostly women. They would have to do forced labor in an ammunition factory until they were liberated on April 12, 1945 by troops of the US Army.

At times, the later FDP politician Bärbel Freudenberg-Pilster served as director of the local court. In 2007, the criminal trial of the so-called Midsummer Celebration Pretzien 2006 took place before the local court .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weinmann, Martin (HSGB): The Nazi camp system , Zweitausendeins Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 4th edition 2001, p. 244.
  2. ↑ Gruchmann, Lothar: "Nacht und Nebel-Justiz: The Participation of German Criminal Courts in Combating the Resistance in the Occupied Western European Countries 1942-1944", in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , year 29, volume 3, 1981, p. 373.
  3. ^ The National Archives, Kew UK, Foreign Office files for Emma Marshall, TNA FO 950/1185.

Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 11 ° 43 ′ 57.2 ″  E