Mannheim Court Court

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old department store on Paradeplatz

The Mannheim Court Court was the court court and thus the middle court in the Electoral Palatinate with its seat in Mannheim . In the Grand Duchy of Baden it was one of the middle courts.

Electoral Palatinate

Elector Carl Philipp moved the residence of the Electoral Palatinate to Mannheim in 1720 . Accordingly, the Palatinate court moved its seat to Mannheim, where it remained until it was taken over by Baden.

The Mannheim court met for the first time on May 15, 1720 in Mannheim. From 1725 it was located on the ground floor of the residential palace . In 1766 the seat was moved to the “ Kaufhaus am Paradeplatz ”, which was built between 1733 and 1747 . Contrary to the name, it was not a department store, but a central authority and court building. It was destroyed in the Second World War except for the tower ruins and part of the ground floor arcades. Today the town house on Paradeplatz is in its place.

The Mannheim Court Court was the entrance court for persons with a privileged place of jurisdiction and a court of second instance regarding judgments of the lower courts (the magistrates of the cities, the offices and higher offices). An appeal to the Higher Appeal Court in Mannheim was possible against decisions of the court .

Grand Duchy of Baden

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the Electoral Palatinate was dissolved in 1803 and the parts on the right bank of the Rhine fell to Baden.

In 1803 Mannheim remained the seat of the “Court Court for the Baden Palatinate County”. As the name suggests, it was now the middle court for the province of the Baden Palatinate . According to the reorganization of the administrative structure, the court court was from 1807 the "court court of the Palatinate or the Lower Rhine" with the function for the province of Lower Rhine .

The first court judge, i.e. the court president, was Karl Freiherr von Hacke . The court initially had five court judges and one assessor, later three court judges, seven judicial officers and one court judge.

In 1809 the provinces were abolished and counties were formed instead. The "Court Court on the Lower Rhine" in Mannheim was responsible for the Neckar and Odenwälder districts as well as the Main and Tauber districts.

Christian Ernst Graf von Benzel-Sternau was President in 1810 .

In civil matters, the court court was also the first instance for the members of the grand ducal and noble families and the upper court servants and ministers. It was also a court of second instance. An appeal to the court court was possible from a value in dispute of 100 guilders .

In criminal matters, the court court was responsible if, on the one hand, sentences of more than 4 weeks in prison were to be imposed and it was not a case of capital crimes that were dealt with directly by the court of higher courts. Here, too, it was the appellate body for criminal judgments from the entrance courts.

In 1851 jury courts were introduced in Baden. The jury consisted of five judges, including the chairman, and twelve jurors.

In 1857 the administration and administration of justice at the lower level were separated from each other. The district offices were purely administrative units, the jurisdiction was taken over by the newly created local courts. The Mannheim court was now one of four court courts. Subordinate were:

dish place Remarks
District court Adelsheim Noble home
Boxberg District Court Boxberg
Buchen District Court Book
District court Eberbach Eberbach
District court Gerlachsheim Gerlachsheim
District Court of Heidelberg Heidelberg
Ladenburg District Court Ladenburg
Mannheim District Court Mannheim
District court Mosbach Mosbach
Neckarbischofsheim District Court Neckarbischofsheim
Neckargemünd District Court Neckargemünd
Philippsburg District Court Philippsburg
Schwetzingen District Court Schwetzingen
District court Sinsheim Sinsheim
Local court Tauberbischofsheim Tauberbischofsheim
Walldürn District Court Walldürn
District court Weinheim Weinheim
Wertheim District Court Wertheim
District court Wiesloch Wiesloch

In 1864 a district court was created in each of the 11 districts. The Mannheim Court Court was repealed and the Mannheim District and Court Court was newly created.

President

literature

  • Holger Radke and Günter Zöbeley: The courts in the Mannheim District Court, online (PDF)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinance, effective September 1, 1857, Großherzoglich Badisches Regierungs-Blatt 1857, p. 318
  2. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Baden 1858, pp. 164–206