Royal District Court of Hamm
The Royal Regional Court of Hamm in what is now Hamm , North Rhine-Westphalia , was one of six regional courts in the county of Mark .
history
The Prussian King and Count of the Mark Friedrich II. The Great ordered with the regulation No. 19 of October 3, 1753 the establishment of regional courts in his country. Including the six regional courts of the county of Mark, in addition to Hamm, Unna , Hagen , Altena , Lüdenscheid and Bochum . The royal district court in Hamm also included the older municipal court of the city of Hamm on the basis of the same ordinance . The ordinance appointed the previous judge at Hamm Johann Gottfried Rademacher as the first district judge , who held the office from 1753 until his death in 1780. At the same time, Mr. Asbeck - Mayor of Hamm - and Mr. Bielefeld - formerly Judge zu Lünen - were assigned as regional court assessors . The successor of the deceased in 1780 was Johann Matthias Bielefeld, who held the office of judge until 1787. From 1890 to 1892 the office of district judge was exercised by the later first president of the Hamm Higher Regional Court, Friedrich Wilhelm Berthold von Rappard . Johann Dietrich Ritter then held the office until 1806 . In 1806 the court's activities were temporarily suspended as the county of Mark became part of the Grand Duchy of Berg . The court was only re-established in 1815 and finally transformed into a district court in 1849 .
Field Office
From 1782 the Funkenburg - a former social foundation of the couple Röttger and Anna Brechte from 1601/1627 - served the court as its official seat. Today the Cafe Extrablatt is located on its building site in Weststrasse.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Novum Corpus Constitutionum 1753 No. 19, Col. 1093f. ; Prussian legal source digital, atsbibliothek-berlin.de