Westerstede District Court

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The District Court of Westerstede is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of eleven district courts in the district of the District Court of Oldenburg .

District Court Westerstede (2012)

The seat of the court is Westerstede in Lower Saxony , the court district includes the entire district of Ammerland . The District Court of Oldenburg is superordinate to the District Court of Westerstede, the competent Higher Regional Court is the Higher Regional Court of Oldenburg .

The large glass mosaic “Horses” created in 1965 by the artist Georg Schmidt-Westerstede (1921–1982) was attached to a gable wall of the courthouse in 2010. It had previously been on the outer wall of an apartment building in Westerstede and was completely destroyed in 2008 during renovation work has been. After protests from the population, the responsible housing association commissioned the Syrian painter and mosaic artist Rodi Khalil , who was then living in Westerstede, with the faithful restoration of the destroyed work of art. Khalil then carried out an extensive reconstruction and restoration of the two by six meter mosaic from 2009 to 2010, which was ultimately given a new location at the district court.

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literature

  • Helmut Harms: The Westerstede District Court . In: Jörgen Welp (Red.): "Jurisdiction is exercised by local courts, ...". 150 years of local courts in the Oldenburger Land (= publications of the Oldenburg landscape . Vol. 13). Published by the Oldenburg landscape , Isensee, Oldenburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89995-513-2 , p. 243 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerstin Schumann: Rodi Khalil "puzzles" on glass mosaic for months. Restoration: work of art shines in new splendor . In: Nordwest-Zeitung (NWZ) of August 16, 2010, p. 6; PDF file, 1.46 MB; Retrieved January 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ (hun): The own goal was eliminated. Destroyed mosaic "Horses" shines in new splendor on the court facade . In: Hunte Report of August 15, 2010, p. A21; PDF file, 1.15 MB; Retrieved January 10, 2012.

Coordinates: 53 ° 15  '12.5 " N , 7 ° 55' 46.5"  E