Usingen District Court

New construction of the district court of Usingen

Seal of the royal Prussian district court in Usingen

The district court of Usingen (AG Usingen) was a German district court of ordinary jurisdiction from 1832 to 2011 with its seat in Usingen .

Jurisdiction and seat

The Usingen District Court was the court of first instance in civil, family and criminal matters. Most recently it belonged to the district of the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court . The district of the district court included the cities of Usingen and Neu-Anspach as well as the communities of Grävenwiesbach , Schmitten , Wehrheim and Weilrod . The former courthouse is located at Weilburger Straße 2, 61250 Usingen.

history

Law has been spoken in Usingen for a long time. In the years 1832 to 1849 Usingen was a court court of the Duchy of Nassau , which was created from the earlier courts of Weilburg, Hachenburg and Ehrenbreitstein . It was also a court of appeal that was housed in Usingen Castle. The free fighter of the 1848 revolution Georg Böhning (1788–1849) was tried in 1841 before the court in Usingen. It had to acquit him, however. Böhning was shot dead in Rastatt in 1849 .

The offices in the Duchy of Nassau served as the court of first instance in Usingen . In Section 12 of the ordinance of February 22, 1867, after Nassau was annexed by Prussia, the separation of administration and justice was ordered. This was not the case in the Duchy of Nassau. The offices were both administrative districts and courts of first instance. The Usingen office existed in Usingen . With ordinances of June 26, 1867 and August 21, 1867, the judicial function was transferred to the newly created district courts, including the district court of Usingen. The district court of Usingen was initially subordinate to the district court of Limburg .

On October 1, 1879, the changes to the Courts Constitution Act came into force. The Usingen district court remained, but the Wiesbaden district court took the place of the dissolved Limburg district court .

By law of May 30, 1893, the communities of Haintchen and Hasselbach were separated from the judicial district and placed under the Camberg District Court .

The seat of this court was initially a building on Schloßplatz. The current building was erected between 1923 and 1925.

After this building had also become too small in the 1990s, an extension was built at the rear of the building in 2003. Architecturally, this round extension made of glass and steel stands in stark contrast to the old building.

During the National Socialist era , the Usingen District Court was closed and continued as a branch of the Bad Homburg District Court . In 1945 two municipalities of the AG Usingen were transferred to the Wetzlar District Court , and on May 1, 1947 the AG Usingen became independent again.

As of December 31, 2011, the Usingen district court was dissolved in accordance with the resolution of the Hessian state parliament of September 15, 2011 and the tasks were transferred to the Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe (Usingen, Wehrheim, Neu-Anspach and Grävenwiesbach) and Königstein im Taunus (Schmitten and Weilrod). The background to this was a decision made within the scope of the Consolidation and Compensation (KuK) project of the Hessian Ministry of Justice in June 2010.

Re-use of the building

The listed building has been used as a police station since September 2016 after renovation and replaces the police station built in 1964 opposite the hospital.

literature

Georg Schmidt von Rhein: On the history of court organization in the regional court district Limburg; Nassauische Annalen , Vol. 99, 1988, pp. 75-87
Overview of the holdings of the Hessian Main State Archive Wiesbaden, 1970, p. 301, section 469/29

Individual evidence

↑ Winfried Schüler: The Duchy of Nassau 1806–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Vol. 75). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-930221-16-0 , p. 164.

↑ Supplement to the Intelligence Gazette for Nassau No. 16, Wiesbaden, March 11, 1867, p. 109 ff.

↑ Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau, No. 42, Wiesbaden, July 31, 1867, p. 517 ff.

↑ Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau No. 47, Wiesbaden, August 28, 1867, p. 809 ff.

^ Eckhart G. Franz , Hanns Hubert Hofmann, Meinhard Schaab: Court organization in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse in the 19th and 20th centuries (= official spatial organization since 1800. Basic study 14 = publications by the Academy for spatial research and regional planning. Contributions 100) . ARL, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-88838-224-6 , p. 223.

↑ Act to change the rules of the organization of the courts (Article 1.1, Section 3 a)) of September 16, 2011 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 2011 No. 17 , p. 409–419 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 574 kB ]). Refers to the law on the seat and the district of the courts of ordinary jurisdiction and the public prosecutor's offices (Judicial Organization Act) (GVBl. I p. 98) of February 1, 2005 . In: Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 2005 No. 5 , p. 98 ff . ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 235 kB ]).

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