Justice Center Meiningen

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The Meiningen Justice Center is one of five justice centers in the Free State of Thuringia . It is responsible for the regions of South Thuringia and South West Thuringia. The building complex, which was inaugurated on July 21, 2001, houses the judicial authorities of the district court , district court , administrative court , social court , public prosecutor's office and probation service / social services. The district court Meiningen is responsible for the administration of the justice center.

Location

The north facade of the historic building with a modern row of rooms
Probation service / canteen (left) and library

The justice center is located north of the city center of the district town of Meiningen near the English Garden and not far from the train station on the site of the former main barracks . The listed main building of the barracks was included in the ensemble of new buildings after extensive renovation. Right next to the justice center, the Meiningen police station was also built in a combination of old and new in the former staff building.

history

Meiningen was granted jurisdiction by the sovereign as early as 1153 and has been the place of jurisdiction ever since. Until the opening of the justice center, the courts were in different and often changing locations in the city.

In 1993, the Free State of Thuringia acquired a 3-hectare sub-area of ​​the 5.2-hectare main barracks in Meiningen from the federal government in order to set up an administrative center to accommodate the Meiningen judicial authorities and the police station. The main barracks was built in 1866/67 as a historicizing brick structure on a site that had previously been used as a garden at the end of the Lindenallee in the immediate vicinity of the English Garden. The outbuildings built or converted in 1872/73 and 1937 complete the ensemble. In the barracks were the 2nd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 32 of the Prussian Army, the 14th Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr , the Infantry Regiment Meiningen and other units of the Wehrmacht and, after the war, the 117th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 8th House of the Guard Army of the Western Group of Troops (until 1991).

In 1994, the country announced a Europe-wide architecture competition. Planning for the new justice center began in August 1996 and was taken over by KBK architects Belz, Kucher, Lutz from Stuttgart. The new buildings could be occupied from August 2000. In 2002 the new Meiningen Justice Center was awarded the Thuringian State Prize for Architecture and Urban Development . The district court has been the central enforcement court for Thuringia since 2013 .

Courthouse

Meeting building with district court and jury room

The justice center consists of a historic building and three new buildings. The main usable area is 11,261 m², the secondary usable area 2,300 m², the functional area 900 m² and the traffic area 8,753 m². The gross floor area is 26,782 m² and has a gross volume of 111,216 m². The total costs amounted to 71 million DM. The historical building houses the regional court, the administrative court, the social court and the public prosecutor's office.

The new buildings are

  1. the meeting building with the district court, land registry, courtrooms, court cashier and jury court room,
  2. the library and
  3. the rotunda in which the probation service and the canteen are located. Around 300 people are employed in the justice center.

dishes

The following courts are located in the Meiningen Justice Center:

There are also the Meiningen public prosecutor's office , the state prosecutor's office and the probation service .

literature

  • Kuratorium Meiningen (Ed.): Lexicon on the history of the city of Meiningen , Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .

Web links

Commons : Justice Center Meiningen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 10.9 ″  E