Justice Forum Hamburg
The Justice Forum is an ensemble of buildings on Sievekingplatz in Hamburg , in which important courts of the federal state are housed:
- The Hamburg Constitutional Court
- The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court
- The Hamburg district court
- The Hamburg District Court
The “Justice Forum” in Neustadt consists of three U-shaped historical buildings around the square, which has been named after the President of the Higher Regional Court, Ernst Friedrich Sieveking , since 1912 . The center of the complex is the Higher Regional Court, flanked by the two opposite buildings, the civil justice building and the criminal justice building.
Higher Regional Court
The building (Sievekingplatz 2, 20355 Hamburg) was built from 1907 to 1912 by the architects Lundt & Kallmorgen to complete the buildings on Sievekingplatz for the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, which at that time was the joint higher regional court of the three Free Hanseatic cities , and that for Lübeck until 1937 and was responsible for Bremen until 1947. In addition to the Higher Regional Court for the city-state of Hamburg, the Hamburg Constitutional Court also has its seat there.
Facade and dome
On the facade in the frieze is the guiding principle for good and equal jurisdiction:
"Ius est ars boni et aequi"
Justitia is depicted above the frieze in the form of a seer. On each side of the frieze there is a sphinx figure as a symbol of justice. The 52 meter high dome of the monumental structure rises above the extensive inner hall, from which two stairways lead to the first floor. Rooms that are particularly splendid are the plenary hall and library on the first floor.
memorial
An inconspicuous memorial plaque to the left of the entrance door to the Higher Regional Court reminds visitors of the verdicts of the National Socialist era:
“We remember the victims who were disenfranchised, disregarded, tortured, deprived of their freedom and put to death by judges and public prosecutors from 1933 to 1945.
Your suffering is our warning. "
When leaving the Higher Regional Court, a large number 1933 on a gray concrete wall opposite the entrance catches the eye. This wall is part of the memorial created by artist Gloria Friedmann in 1997 on behalf of the judicial and cultural authorities for the victims of National Socialism, which is located on the forecourt of the Higher Regional Court. On the other side of the gray concrete cube with the inscription 1933 is a colored close-up of Hamburg. In front of it are 90 iron steles on which various plants grow in pots, for example roses next to nettles or medicinal herbs next to poisonous plants. This should symbolize different cultures, religions, social milieus and nations.
Both sides of the wall and the plants are explained on a plaque:
“1933 - on the gray concrete surface a cool number reminds those who speak right today:
The German judiciary was a compliant instrument of the National Socialist dictatorship. Judges and prosecutors carried out racist laws against Jews, Poles, Russians, and other groups. Almost everyone kept silent about the injustice, only a few offered resistance.
Hamburg today - this is where people live who seek justice in the surrounding courts. In front of it iron steles with plants, native and foreign, healing and poisonous, thorny and mimosa-like. You stand there for the Hamburg population. In their diversity, everyone has the right to care just as people have the right to equality before the law. Here + Now: A place of accountability and a place of responsibility for the diverse, new events every moment.
Gloria Friedmann created this memorial on behalf of Hamburg's judiciary (October 1997). "
Figure group
From an original fountain, in which a water basin formed the central axis of the square, only the figures that were created by Arthur Bock in 1912 are preserved today. The facility was dismantled as part of the redesign of the green corridor of the former Hamburg ramparts (part of the Planten un Blomen park ) for the International Horticultural Exhibition - IGA 1963.
Criminal justice building
The building for the criminal jurisdiction on Sievekingplatz 3 was to draft 1879-1882 Hans Zimmermann built on the next execution of criminal and civil justice building and the urban planning of the Justice Forum back. The palace-like complex takes up forms of the German Renaissance. The originally three-wing building was expanded in two steps (northeast wing 1895-1896) to the east to form a full rectangle (1911-1914).
Like the civil justice building, it serves the Hamburg regional court and the district court . The house is also connected to the Hamburg pre- trial detention center to the north .
Civil Justice Building
The civil justice building at Sievekingplatz 1 was also built by Hans Zimmermann in 1898–1903 as a counterpart to the criminal justice building opposite. The bronze figures above the entrance portal show important Hamburg lawyers, such as Vincent Moller (1560–1621), who was Hamburg's mayor from 1599 to 1621 , councilor Matthäus Schlüter (1648–1719), Georg Arnold Heise (1778–1851), the first president of the Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities in Lübeck, the predecessor of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court and Hermann Baumeister (1806–1877), the President of the Higher Court and the Hamburg Parliament .
In 1930, in the ramparts in front of the east facade of the building, a reduced version of the Hamburg Kaiser Wilhelm I monument , unveiled in 1903 on the Rathausmarkt , was erected. Damaged in the Second World War (like the building itself, today the gable is missing on one corner), it was disbanded for the IGA in 1963 and the equestrian statue was moved to the nearby Johannes-Brahms-Platz. The corresponding groups of figures were set up scattered around Sieviekingplatz in 1985, before being grouped around the Kaiser again in 1997.
By the 1920s at the latest, the building turned out to be too small and its gas lighting was also criticized. While some departments were relocated to the Drehbahn (judicial authority) in 1927 , between 1928 and 1930 the semi-circular extension (including for the land registry ) with its clinker brick façades was built by reducing the size of the park area by the chief building director Fritz Schumacher in collaboration with building director Johann Christoph Otto Ranck. The resulting land registry hall , a reinforced concrete staircase with glass skylights, was equipped with colored ceramic parapets and a five-meter-high figure fountain by Richard Kuöhl and is now used for various events.
The building still houses parts of the regional court and the district court of Hamburg.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Visit to the Hamburg Higher Regional Court on March 19, 2013
- ↑ From richterverein.net - Hamburgischer Richterverein: Die Grundbuchhalle, Freunde der Grundbuchhalle e. V. - History, plans, pictures
- ↑ Denkmalverein Hamburg: Die Grundbuchhalle ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '23 " N , 9 ° 58' 39" E