District Court Speyer

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District Court Speyer
Courthouse

Courthouse

Data
place Speyer
architect Otto Baer
Architectural style Neo renaissance
Construction year 1900-1902
Coordinates 49 ° 19 '10.1 "  N , 8 ° 25' 58.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '10.1 "  N , 8 ° 25' 58.7"  E
District Court Speyer (Rhineland-Palatinate)
District Court Speyer

The Speyer District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of six District Courts (AG) in the district of the Frankenthal Regional Court (Pfalz) .

Seat and District of the Court

The court has its seat in the independent city of Speyer . The 187 km² judicial district includes the area of ​​the city of Speyer and the communities of Böhl-Iggelheim , Dudenhofen , Hanhofen , Harthausen , Otterstadt , Römerberg , Schifferstadt and Waldsee . Around 109,000 people live in it.

building

The court is located at Wormser Straße 41/43 . The main and ancillary buildings of the court were built from yellow sandstone between 1900 and 1902 and are now a listed building . The architect was the royal building officer Otto Bär. The outbuilding used to house the prison.

history

During the French occupation, the original breed police court of the city of Speyer was re-established as a peace court and in 1854 renamed the "regional court". With the entry into force of the Courts Constitution Act on October 1, 1879, the court was given the name "District Court".

Superior courts

The District Court of Frankenthal (Pfalz) is superordinate to the District Court of Speyer . The competent higher regional court is the Palatinate higher regional court in Zweibrücken .

See also

Web links

Commons : Speyer District Court  - collection of images, videos and audio files