District court Ronsdorf

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The front of the former Ronsdorf District Court.
The barred windows of the detention cells at the back of the building.

The former district court of Ronsdorf , located at Erbschlöer Strasse 9 , was the district court of the then small town of Ronsdorf , since 1929 a district of the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia . The building is a listed building .

The court

In 1811 the court organization in the Grand Duchy of Berg was reorganized. In this context, peace courts were set up in each canton . For the canton of Ronsdorf this was the Ronsdorf Peace Court , which was subordinate to the Düsseldorf Tribunal . After the end of the Grand Duchy of Berg , Prussia took over the Ronsdorf Peace Court. At first it was subordinate to the District Court of Düsseldorf , then to the District Court of Düsseldorf and from 1834 to the District Court of Elberfeld . It lasted until 1879. When the Reich Justice Laws came into force, it was repealed in 1879 and its district was assigned to that of the Lennep District Court . However, this continued to hold court days in Ronsdorf. On April 1, 1896, the independent district court of Ronsdorf was created and subordinated to the district court of Wuppertal . On October 31, 1932, the district court was formally overturned.

The courthouse

The building was inaugurated on April 1, 1896. The former district court room is still preserved. The house was also the city prison . The seven detention cells are still there today, but are now mainly used as storage rooms and can be recognized by the small, barred windows on the back of the building facing Zandershöfe Street . In the meantime, they were used again as detention cells , only during the Nazi era , later first by the American occupation forces and then by the British administrators .

The term "brown house", which is still used by the population of Ronsdorf today, is not due to the beige paintwork, but to the fact that the building was first used by the SA , later by the NSDAP, as the seat of the local group during the National Socialist era .

Today the building houses a police station and the meeting rooms of the DRK and the social welfare organization , a social institution for the needy and the elderly.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
  2. Ordinance of March 23, 1896, Act SS 41

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 36.1 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 10.1 ″  E