District court Zwingenberg

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Building of the former district court

The District Court of Zwingenberg (until 1879 Regional Court of Zwingenberg ) was a Hessian court of ordinary jurisdiction that existed from 1821 to 1934 and was based in Zwingenberg .

history

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” was set up as a court of second instance for the Principality of Starkenburg . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords . The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the founding of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance were transferred to the newly created regional courts in 1821 as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. “Regional Court Zwingenberg” was therefore the name for the court of first instance in Zwingenberg from 1821 to 1879. In the territorial territories of the Starkenburg province , there was still a judicial office in Michelstadt for court cases of the second instance, which was subordinate to the court. The German Courts Constitution Act of 1879 led to a uniform judicial organization throughout the empire . The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” has now become the “ Regional Court of Darmstadt ” as the superior second instance in the province, while the first instance courts have been renamed the District Court.

district Court

As a result of the separation of justice and administration in the Grand Duchy of Hesse by the ordinance of July 14, 1821, the District Court of Zwingenberg was founded, the district of which was congruent with the District of Bensheim and thus had the following components:

In 1824 Beedenkirchen and Wurzelbach were separated from the Lichtenberg Regional Court and assigned to the Zwingenberg Regional Court. On 16 December 1839, the founding of the carried District Court Gernsheim are in whose district the places Gernsheim, calibration, Eschollbrücken, tap and Klein-Rohrheim given had, as a replacement went for it until then the district of the Regional Court Fuerth counting places Elmshausen , Gadernheim , Gronau , Hohenstein , Lautern , Raidelbach , Reichenbach , Schönberg , Wilmshausen and Zell an den Zwingenberger Sprengel. In the course of the reorganization of the judicial districts in the Starkenburg province with effect from June 1, 1853, the places Pfungstadt, Eberstadt and Nieder-Beerbach were transferred to the district of the Darmstadt Regional Court .

District Court

On October 1, 1879, as a result of the Courts Constitution Act, it was renamed the District Court of Zwingenberg, assigned to the district of the newly created Regional Court of Darmstadt, and the place Malchen was transferred to the now District Court of Darmstadt II . The district of the district court Zwingenberg now consisted of the places Alsbach, Auerbach, Balkhausen, Beedenkirchen with Wurzelbach, Bensheim, Bickenbach, Elmshausen, Fehlheim, Gadernheim, Gronau, Hähnlein, Hochstädten, Jugenheim, Langwaden, Lautern, Ober-Beerbach with Schmal-Beerbach and Stettbach, Raidelbach, Reichenbach, Rodau, Schönberg, Schwanheim, Seeheim, Staffel, Wilmshausen, Zell and Zwingenberg. Of these, Bensheim, Elmshausen, Gadernheim, Gronau, Lautern, Raidelbach, Reichenbach, Schönberg, Wilmshausen and Zell formed the basis of the district court district of Bensheim, which was newly established on May 1, 1902.

In 1934 the Zwingenberg District Court was dissolved and the tasks were transferred to the Bensheim District Court .

Courthouse

The building at Obertor 1, the former hunting lodge of Philipp the Magnanimous from the House of Hesse , served as an office building from 1803 to 1934, i.e. the district and district court was housed here until 1934 and the rent office, which was previously located in Seeheim, from 1821 to 1900. From 1934 the official building was only used for residential purposes. The former official building is a two-storey quarry stone building with a gable roof and a tail gable facing south. The plastered facade is structured by rectangular windows with wooden folding shutters. There are horizontal cornices on the south gable with small obelisk attachments to the side. In the roof there are again small dormers with pointed helmets. On the west side is a stair tower with a round arched cellar portal, the house entrances on Obergasse are equipped with double-leaf doors and skylights. The district court room is connected to the main building by a low entrance wing. The small building is single-storey with large coupled windows, also plastered and decorated with tail gables crowned by obelisks. The courtyard-like angle between the main building and the auxiliary building is separated from the street by an iron fence between high sandstone posts. The Remise, an elongated, single-storey, unplastered quarry stone building with a gable roof and sandstone-framed door and window openings extends in front of the stair tower. In front of it, in the courtyard, there is a sandstone fountain with a high, four-sided floor, end plate and round water basin. The former stately property and later administration building is of particular local and regional historical importance, as well as being a building of the late Renaissance also of art historical and architectural value and therefore protected as a monument.

Judge at the District Court of Zwingenberg

Individual evidence

  1. The division of the country into district councils and district courts on July 14, 1821 ( Hess. Reg.Bl. p. 404 )
  2. Allocation of the communities of Beedenkirchen and Wurzelbach to the district council of Bensheim and the district court of Zwingenberg on October 11, 1824 ( Hess. Reg.Bl. pp. 633–634)
  3. ^ Announcement regarding the establishment of a regional court in Gernsheim on November 16, 1839 ( Hess. Reg.Bl. S. 375-376)
  4. ^ Announcement, the separation of the places of the former office of Schönberg, with the exception of the parish Rimbach, from the regional court of Fürth and their allocation to the regional court of Zwingenberg on November 16, 1839 (Hess. Reg.Bl. p. 377)
  5. Announcement, 1. the establishment of new regional courts in Darmstadt and Waldmichelbach, 2. the future composition of the city and regional court districts in the Starkenburg province on May 20, 1853 ( Hess. Reg.Bl. p. 377)
  6. Announcement of April 15, 1853, regarding:
    1) the repeal of the Großkarben and Rödelheim regional courts, and the establishment of new regional courts in Darmstadt, Waldmichelbach, Vilbel and Altenstadt, and also the relocation of the regional court seat from Altenschlirf to Herbstein;
    2) the future composition of the city and regional court districts in the provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse. (Hess. Reg.Bl. pp. 221–230)
  7. ^ Ordinance on the implementation of the German Courts Constitution Act and the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act of May 14, 1879 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1879 no. 15 , p. 197–211 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 17.8 MB ]).
  8. ^ Announcement regarding the establishment of a local court in Bensheim on March 26, 1902 . In: Grand Ducal Ministry of Justice (Ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1902 no. 19 , p. 154 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  9. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of district courts of April 11, 1934 . In: Hessian government paper. 1934 No. 10 , p. 63 ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 13.6 MB ]).

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 19.7 "  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 50.8"  E