Bautzen district court
The Bautzen Regional Court ( Upper Sorbian Krajne sudnistwo Budyšin ) was a court of the ordinary jurisdiction of the federal state of Saxony until the end of 2012 .
Seat and District of the Court
The seat of the regional court was Bautzen . The judicial district corresponded to the judicial districts of the district courts of Bautzen , Kamenz and Hoyerswerda .
In the middle of the 19th century, between 1834 and 1853, the jurisdiction of goods and manors ( patrimonial courts ), which was particularly widespread in Eastern Saxony, was ceded to the state. With the law of August 11, 1855, King John of Saxony also repealed the city and patrimonial courts in Upper Lusatia, so that by October 1, 1856, all jurisdiction was transferred to state courts. In Upper Lusatia, district courts were set up in Bautzen, Zittau, Kamenz and Löbau, along with 17 court offices, each of which formed the first instance.
After the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, the Reich Justice Laws were gradually passed, e.g. B. on January 27, 1877 the Courts Constitution Act (GVG), on January 30, 1877 the Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO) and on February 1, 1877 the Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO). These laws created a uniform judicial structure.
In Saxony, in order to implement the Reich Justice Laws, “Law No. 17, containing provisions for the implementation of the Courts Constitution Act of January 27, 1877 and the jurisdiction of the courts in matters of non-contentious jurisdiction” of March 1, 1879 (GVBl. 1879, p. 59 ff.) determined: "WE, Albert, by GOD'S grace King of Saxony etc. decree with the consent of our loyal estates ..." including the repeal of the Higher Appeal Court, the Appeal Courts, one of which was in Bautzen, the District Courts, the Commercial Courts and the court offices and the formation of the higher regional court in Dresden and the regional courts in Dresden, Leipzig, Bautzen, Zwickau, Chemnitz, Freiberg and Plauen. On July 28, 1879, Minister of Justice Christian Wilhelm Ludwig von Abeken ordered the division of the Kingdom of Saxony into judicial districts from October 1, 1879 "with the highest approval". Thereafter, the district courts of Bautzen, Löbau, Neusalza, Schirgiswalde, Bischofswerda, Kamenz belonged to the district court of Bautzen , Königsbrück, Pulsnitz, Stolpen, Neustadt, Sebnitz, Zittau, Ostritz, Reichenau, Großschönau, Bernstadt, Herrnhut and Ebersbach.
In 1879 13 judges and twelve other employees worked at the Bautzen Regional Court under President Heinrich Ferdinand von Koppenfels, and six judges and 17 employees at the Bautzen District Court. 54 lawyers were admitted to the Bautzen district court.
In 1913, the regional court responsible for 492,000 inhabitants at that time had grown to 21 judges under President Hagemann, and nine judges worked at the Bautzen district court (78,600 inhabitants). The number of lawyers admitted to the regional court was already 84.
In 1927, under President Stavenhagen, the regional court comprised 27 judges with 509,500 inhabitants and the district court eleven judges with 86,000 inhabitants.
After the Second World War , the Bautzen District Court and District Court, in contrast to most of the authorities, continued to operate as an organization little changed. Only with the dissolution of the states within what was then the GDR in the summer of 1952 were the higher regional court as well as the regional and local courts by the "Law on the Constitution of the Courts of the German Democratic Republic of October 2, 1952" (Law Gazette of the GDR 1952, p. 983 ) and repealed under the ordinance on the restructuring of the courts of August 28, 1952 with effect from August 31, 1952. In their place came the three-tier structure into district and district courts as well as the Supreme Court of the GDR . The District Court of Dresden took on the role of the Bautzen Regional Court .
With the “Law on the Organization of Courts in the Free State of Saxony” of June 30, 1992 (SächsGVBl. 1992, p. 287), the court structure that had been repealed in 1952 was restored on January 1, 1993. The Bautzen district court was responsible for the former districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Hoyerswerda and Kamenz with around 360,000 inhabitants. The district court began with a criminal chamber, three civil chambers, a chamber for commercial matters, with eleven judges, three judicial officers and 23 other employees. 35 lawyers were established in the district of the regional court. Mr. Benzinger became president of the regional court. From 1995 to 2002 Hans-Jochen Emde was President of the Bautzen Regional Court, from May 1, 2003 to June 30, 2012, this was Konrad Gatz.
Most recently there were twelve judges working at the Bautzen Regional Court, the total number of staff was 63 including the social service staff. The court district had a population of around 325,000. More than 170 lawyers were established in the district of the Bautzen Regional Court.
On January 1, 2013, the Bautzen Regional Court was dissolved and replaced by the external chambers of the Görlitz Regional Court , which has since been responsible for the former Bautzen Regional Court district. With the closure of the court, the Location Act (SächsStOG), which the Saxon State Parliament passed on January 25, 2012, was implemented.
Courthouse
The Bautzen Regional Court was housed together with the Bautzen District Court , the Bautzen Labor Court and the Bautzen Public Prosecutor's Office in the justice building at Lessingstrasse 7, 02625 Bautzen.
The courts in Bautzen were housed in the Ortenburg at the end of the 19th century. Between 1902 and 1906, a new building in the style of neo-Romanesque, neo-Gothic and neo-renaissance for the district court, district court and public prosecutor's office, which used the house until 1945, was built on the Lessingstraße acquired by the city. That year the house was occupied by Russian occupation forces and separated from the surroundings and the citizens of the city with a high wooden fence. The district and district courts found refuge in the Ortenburg again until they were able to move back to Lessingstrasse in 1949. At least the building wings on Taucherstrasse and Lessingstrasse were vacated, while the Russian occupiers continued to claim the wing on Mättigstrasse.
With the restructuring of 1952, the judiciary clearly lost its social importance. The police moved into the wing on Taucherstraße and pushed the courts into the middle wing. In 1954 the Russians cleared the wing on Mättigstrasse and the offices of the Ministry of State Security moved in.
After the peaceful revolution of 1989, the police initially also claimed the wing on Mättigstrasse. The district court had to move into a makeshift building behind the former Bautzen II prison and into the roof extension of the building, where it was barely quartered. In the course of time, construction measures for the higher administrative court in the Ortenburg created circumstances, according to which the regional court, district court, public prosecutor's office and police remained in the house to this day. A planned major construction project has so far failed because the police did not move out of the house due to the lack of new offices.
In the building at Lessingstrasse 7, 12 judges and 82 non-judicial employees of the district court work in addition to the Bautzen regional court, 5 judges and 10 other employees at the Bautzen labor court and 51 employees at the public prosecutor's office, including 19 public prosecutors.
Superordinate and subordinate courts
The Higher Regional Court of Dresden and then the Federal Court of Justice were superordinate to the Bautzen Regional Court. The district courts in Bautzen , Kamenz and Hoyerswerda were subordinate .
organization
Konrad Gatz was President of the Bautzen Regional Court.
At last there were three civil chambers, one chamber for commercial matters, seven criminal chambers and one penal enforcement chamber.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 39.5 ″ N , 14 ° 26 ′ 9.2 ″ E