District Court of Braunschweig

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The old building of the Braunschweig Regional Court in Münzstrasse
The new building of the Braunschweig Regional Court, since 2012 Fritz-Bauer- Platz

The Braunschweig Regional Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of the two regional courts (LG) in the district of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court .

Seat and District of the Court

The seat of the court is Braunschweig . The judicial district includes the districts of the nine subordinate district courts Bad Gandersheim , Braunschweig , Clausthal-Zellerfeld , Goslar , Helmstedt , Salzgitter , Seesen , Wolfenbüttel and Wolfsburg .

Superior courts

The Braunschweig Higher Regional Court in Braunschweig is directly superordinate to the LG Braunschweig.

Personnel, chambers, business distribution

In 2019 there are 16 criminal and 12 civil chambers at the LG Braunschweig . Two chambers of penal enforcement and two chambers for commercial matters exercise special powers.

building

The buildings of the Braunschweig Regional Court include an old building completed in 1881 and a new building built in 1965.

Old building

The old building is a building built in the style of the Italian cuboid renaissance according to plans by the architect and building counselor Friedrich Lilly . The building has a 90-meter-wide building front facing Münzstrasse. There are three wings to the rear with the north, central and south wings. As a result, the building has an "E" shape.

The enactment of the Reich Justice Laws was the reason for the government of the Duchy of Braunschweig to plan a joint judicial center for the judicial authorities of the city of Braunschweig, which, according to initial plans, should serve the two district courts of the city, the regional court, the higher regional court and the two higher regional and regional courts Providing accommodation to district attorneys assigned to the district court. Because of the expected costs of 2,840,000.00 marks , a smaller solution was then preferred, which only provided for the accommodation of the regional court, the higher regional court and the associated public prosecutor's offices. On January 19, 1878, the state assembly of the duchy decided on this small solution. The costs for this were only estimated at 1,313,500.00 marks. From a structural point of view, the construction of the building presented a challenge, as the building site was swampy and criss-crossed by water veins and, since an arm of the Oker had once passed through the building site, it consisted essentially of fine, clayey river sand down to a depth of up to 9 m . Construction began in the autumn of 1878.

The building was occupied on September 15, 1881, the higher regional court and the public prosecutor's office assigned to it was housed in the more representative upper rooms on the second floor, the regional court and the public prosecutor's office assigned to it in the more modest lower rooms on the ground floor and first floor. The Braunschweig Higher Regional Court stayed in the building until 1974, when it moved into its own courthouse. Since April 1, 1998, two senates of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court have been housed in rooms above the jury room. The public prosecutor's office has only had a few rooms in the courthouse since 1974.

The building was badly damaged during the bombing raids in World War II , especially during the bombing raid on Braunschweig on October 15, 1944 . The middle of the rear wing with the jury room inside it burned out completely and the previously very splendidly furnished and decorated entrance hall was almost completely destroyed. The courthouse was rebuilt immediately after the war, but following the financial need of the time in a simple and sparse execution without unnecessary jewelry.

A comprehensive renovation took place between 1994 and 2001, while court operations continued at the same time. During this time, today's entrance hall and the jury room were designed. The Wolfsburg architect Gabriele Schöning designed the entrance hall using glass, stainless steel and oak wood for the simple and restrained furnishing with the aid of lighting and coloring as a hall that should convey lightness and transparency. The jury court room was designed to be functional, but sober and dignified. The wood of the American white oak was used here . The hall was also equipped with two rear projection screens.

New building

As early as 1922, a building was acquired on the neighboring property at Münzstrasse 16 and connected to the south wing of the old building on the two upper floors by means of openings. This building was completely destroyed in the bombing raids in 1944 and was not rebuilt after the Second World War. Today's new building is a five-story functional building with a flat roof that was occupied on March 15, 1965. The building connects to the rear western part of the old building and is not located on the site of this former extension. The new building only houses offices and no conference rooms.

President of the Regional Court

See also

literature

  • Edgar Isermann, Michael Schlüter (Ed.): Justice and Lawyers in Braunschweig 1879-2004 , Joh. Heinrich Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-926701-62-5

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 48.2 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 26 ″  E