District Court of Coburg
The Coburg Regional Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction . It is one of 22 regional courts in the Free State of Bavaria .
history
In the state treaty on the unification of the Free State of Coburg with the Free State of Bavaria, Coburg was promised the establishment of a regional court in 1920 to replace the state ministry to be dissolved. The district court district of Coburg should include the old district courts of Coburg, Neustadt , Rodach , Sonnefeld and Königsberg and, otherwise too small, other Bavarian district court districts. These were the district courts of Lichtenfels , Kronach , Ludwigsstadt and Nordhalben from the district court district of Bamberg and the district court of Weismain from the district court district of Bayreuth . Bamberg got the district courts Hofheim , Eltmann and Haßfurt of the regional court district of Schweinfurt as an alternative . The new jurisdiction of the District Court of Coburg for the Bavarian district courts led to strong but ultimately unsuccessful protests by the citizens, cities and courts concerned.
On April 1, 1921, the Bavarian Minister of Justice Christian Roth officially opened the regional court in the former Coburg ministerial and state parliament building. The district court building was completely destroyed by fire on April 10, 1945 during the fighting for Coburg. Court operations began on March 25, 1946, initially in the town hall on the market square . From January 1947, rooms in the former ducal asset management building at Elsässer Strasse No. 9 were in use, two years later also in the former Hotel Reichsgraf at Bahnhofstrasse 39.
A new building for the Coburg judicial authorities was started in 1953 on Ketschendorfer Strasse on the site of the old courthouse. The district court moved there in 1955. The inauguration of the entire complex followed on March 23, 1957.
building
In 1835, Duke Ernst I ordered the construction of the Augustenstift, which was erected in front of the Outer Ketschentor. From 1842 the property was the residence of the Prince and Hereditary Prince couple Ernst II and Alexandrine . From 1844 to 1918 it served as the ducal ministerial building and from 1921 as a regional court.
The new construction of the justice building for the regional and district court from 1953/54 was built according to plans by the Sauer government building council. It is considered to be the best preserved building in Coburg from this era. The three-part assembly consists of a four-storey block building to the east, which serves primarily as an administration building, a two-storey atrium house, the meeting building, and a two-storey, three-axis building with the main entrance as a connecting wing.
The east wing is characterized by a plastered facade with 24 axes, whereby the side entrance in Casimirstraße has a limestone cladding, which is decorated with a bas-relief with two lions, a person and an inscription. The conference building has a natural stone facade made of light and dark limestone , which is structured on the north side in front of the conference rooms on the upper floor by narrow window strips like a modern grid structure. Circumferential, darker horizontal bands above the windows and an upper serrated band with cylinders also structure the facade. In the south corner of the main house there is a striking staircase with an oval stairwell, a typical construction from the 1950s. The curved walls are painted with yellowish square fields on plaster, with geometric motifs and a stylized lion appearing. The eastern wall of the staircase, designed as a dark gray five-field zone on the lower two floors, has a Grisaille depiction of a shepherd on the ground floor , assigned to Blasius Spreng , and two Coburg emblems on the first floor.
District Court District
In addition to the independent city of Coburg, the district of the LG Coburg extends to the following districts :
Superordinate and subordinate courts
The Coburg Regional Court is one of seven regional courts over which the Bamberg Higher Regional Court is superordinate; subordinate are the district courts in Coburg , Kronach and Lichtenfels .
organization
The regional court has four civil chambers , three criminal chambers , one youth chamber , one chamber for commercial matters and two penal enforcement chambers .
Judge
President
- Friedrich Höpfel (1921–1931)
- Friedrich Winkler (1931–1937)
- August Göpfert (1937–1945)
- Paul Fichte (1946–1951)
- Wilhelm Alwens (1951–1958)
- Gotthilf Herrmann (1958–1967)
- Hubert Fischer (from 1967)
Other judges
- Hans Woldemar Schack (Director, 1921–1930)
- Klaus Budewig (presiding judge, 1980–1995)
- Hartmut Guhling (judge, 1999–2009)
See also
- List of German courts
- Dishes in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- List of courts in the Free State of Bavaria
literature
- Klaus Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg : The Coburg court organization in the 19th century and the establishment of the Bavarian district court Coburg in 1821; in: Yearbook of the Coburger Landesstiftung 1971, pp. 29–74.
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. 164
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Erdmann: Coburg, Bavaria and the Reich 1918-1923 . Rossteutscher, Coburg 1969, p. 62
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 17.7 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 52.4 ″ E