District Court of Worms

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The district court of Worms at Hardtgasse 6 on Obermarkt

The Worms District Court (until 1878: Worms Peace Court ) is a court of ordinary jurisdiction . It is one of four local courts in the district of the Mainz Regional Court .

Place of jurisdiction and district

The place of jurisdiction of the local court in Worms is Hardtgasse 6, 67547 Worms . The judicial district includes the city of Worms as well as all municipalities of the municipalities of Eich , Monsheim and Wonnegau .

building

The court is located in the center of Worms in the Hardtgasse 6. The building is a 1893 built, under monument protection standing neo-baroque , representative building. The three wings of the five-axis building are crowned by mansard roofs . An increase , which was already taken into account in the planning of the building, took place in 1906. The planning of the building was taken over by the Ministry in Darmstadt, which, however, left the detailed planning including interior work to the district building authority, which was then under the direction of the district architect Friedrich Groß. He was supported in his work by government building officials Adam Paul and Georg Metzler. Metzler later became Worms city architect and succeeded city architect Karl Hofmann . The building plans were mainly implemented by local companies that were able to carry out most of the work .

Superior courts

The Mainz Regional Court is superordinate to the Worms District Court. The competent higher regional court is the higher regional court Koblenz .

history

prehistory

In the Holy Roman Empire , Worms was an imperial city . The Court of First Instance was carried out by the City Court . This consisted of 8 lay judges who were appointed by the permanent council (the thirteen). An appeal against decisions of the city court was possible with the council.

During the French Revolution

In 1792 the troops of revolutionary France conquered the Rhineland and also occupied Worms. With a law of March 30, 1793, the National Convention decided to annex the left bank of the Rhine . On December 4, 1795 (44 frimaire IV), Rudler passed the law on administration and judicial organization in the four departments on the left bank of the Rhine . This made the French judicial constitution law Loi des 16 et 24 août 1790 sur l'organization judiciaire from 1790, which provided for the establishment of cantonal peace courts, also made binding for Worms. However, this did not have any practical effects, as the First Coalition War was still ongoing and Worms was not under French occupation at all at that time. It was not until 1797 that Worms was again occupied by the French. The annexation of the Rhineland was confirmed with the Peace of Campo Formio in October 1797. In 1798 the French built up the administrative structures in the conquered areas and set up the Worms Peace Court , which was responsible for the Canton of Worms . In March 1798, the justice of the peace Ludwig Heisel took up his work in the Worms Peace Court, where he also worked as a single judge in 1801. The peace court was subordinate to the department court in the department Donnersberg with seat in Mainz . The highest court was the court of appeal in Trier .

With the Treaty of Lunéville , the annexation of the left bank of the Rhine by France was confirmed. During the French era , the consulate passed a law on June 30, 1802, to introduce the French constitution and all administrative legislation in the annexed areas. With the Circumscription (circular) of January 28, 1803 ( 8. Pluviose XI ), the scope of the canton and thus the judicial district of the Magistrate's Court was finally established. The judicial district remained largely unchanged until 1878.

After the reconquest in the Wars of Liberation , the region was administered from 1814 to 1816 by the Austro-Baier Community Provincial Administration Commission . This let the peace courts exist, but on July 27, 1815 set up the court of appeal in Kreuznach as a higher court.

From the Grand Duchy of Hesse until today

At the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Grand Duke of Hesse was awarded 140,000 souls in the former Donnersberg department as compensation for the Duchy of Westphalia, which had been ceded to Prussia (Article 47 of the main contract). The Grand Duchy of Hesse , in which this area was run as the Province of Rheinhessen , also took over the structure of the courts. However, the Court of Appeal in Kreuznach was dissolved and a provisional Higher Court in Mainz with the "Provisional Appeal and Cassation Court Regulations for the Grand Ducal Hessian part of the state on the left bank of the Rhine" issued on November 4, 1815.

In the Grand Duchy, the Hessian Ordinance of July 14, 1821 led to the abolition of administrative and judicial offices and the formation of regional courts, which led to the separation of jurisdiction from administration . However, this did not affect the province of Rheinhessen, where this separation had already taken place during the French era.

The Worms Peace Court was now one of twelve peace courts that were subordinate to the Mainz District Court . When the Mainz District Court was divided into the Mainz and Alzey District Courts on December 1, 1836, Worms was assigned to the judicial district of the Alzey District Court, which was renamed the Alzey District Court on October 24, 1852 .

The Courts Constitution Act of January 27, 1877 was introduced in the Grand Duchy of Darmstadt with the Grand Ducal Hessian Act of September 3, 1878 and the Implementing Ordinance of May 14, 1879. The Worms Peace Court was converted into a district court on October 1, 1878. It was subordinate to the Mainz Regional Court and the Darmstadt Higher Regional Court and initially did not have its own building, but was temporarily housed in the former grammar school on Wollstrasse. A move to the vacant hospital planned at the time was rejected by the government. Heated debates followed in the city council, in which it was repeatedly demanded that the “dignity” of the court should be taken into account when choosing a building. In the end, an agreement was reached with the government and the judiciary, in which it was decided to demolish the vacant hospital and to erect a representative building on the same site, which the court considered worthy. At the same time it was decided to add a separate wing for the judicial prison to the building. The move into the premises took place on January 24, 1894; it was put into service two days later.

In 1945, after the Worms district on the right bank of the Rhine had been assigned to the Bergstrasse district , Biblis , Wattenheim , Nordheim and Groß-Rohrheim became part of the Lampertheim district court district .

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage: Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. (pdf) In: denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de. May 4, 2016, p. 8 , accessed September 20, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b Fritz Reuter : History of the City of Worms . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 522 .
  3. ↑ Gunther Mahle Wine: The imperial city of Worms in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; in: Gerold Bönnen (Ed.): Die Geschichte der Stadt Worms, 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1679-7 , p. 309
  4. ^ Werner Schubert: French law in Germany at the beginning of the 19th century, 1977, ISBN 3-412-04976-X , p. 23; The indication in the source contains an error: December 4, 1795 was the 13th Frimaire An IV . It is unclear which of the two days is the actual release date.
  5. ↑ Historical-statistical yearbook of the Departements vom Donnersberge (journal volume 1800/01), pp. 170–174 digitized version ( memento of the original dated November 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (285 page (s) approx. 366.42 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de
  6. ^ Resolution of the 9th Frimaire X, printed in the Bulletin LXXII of the collection
  7. ↑ Main treaty of the Congress of European Powers, Princes and Free Cities assembled in Vienna of June 9, 1815, Article 97, page 96 ( online )
  8. ↑ The division of the country into district councils and district courts relating to July 14, 1821 ( Hess. Reg.Bl. pp. 403-415)

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