District Court Erfurt

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Building of the Erfurt Regional Court on Domplatz

The Erfurt Regional Court is a German court of ordinary jurisdiction in Thuringia .

Courthouse and seat

The seat of the court is Erfurt , the court is housed in the court building at Domplatz 37, built between 1874 and 1879. The building was built in the neo-Gothic style by the Prussian government master builder Adolf Borchers .

Judicial district and instance

The regional court district of the LG Erfurt comprises the districts of the district courts of Apolda , Arnstadt , Erfurt , Gotha , Sömmerda and Weimar, which are subordinate to it . The Thuringian Higher Regional Court in Jena is superordinate to the Erfurt Regional Court , which in turn is superordinated to the Federal Court of Justice .

history

Erfurt was already the seat of the court in the 14th century. However, there was no separate courthouse, rather several courtrooms were used. Public negotiations took place on the cathedral square.

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Erfurt became Prussian , with an interruption due to Napoleonic occupation after the battle of Jena and Auerstedt from 1806 to 1814. It belonged to the province of Saxony . In 1821 the first regional court in Erfurt was founded. 13 court offices (e.g. Erfurt, Langensalza , Sömmerda , Schleusingen and Suhl ) are subordinate to the court and the Inquisitoriat Erfurt is affiliated as a criminal prosecution authority. As early as 1839, a judicial reform took place in Prussia, in which the lower court authorities were renamed and reorganized. The previous regional court in Erfurt becomes the Erfurt City Court . The district courts of Erfurt, Langensalza, Weißensee , Schleusingen and Suhl are subordinate to this city court . With the new Prussian court system that came into force in 1849 , the city court was renamed the Erfurt District Court . It has a department for criminal and private law matters and a second for other matters relating to the administration of justice . The judicial district of the district court includes Ranis , Ziegenrück , Gefell , Weißensee and Sömmerda. The court is subordinate to the appellate court in Naumburg (Saale) , the forerunner of the higher regional court Naumburg .

Today's courthouse was built between 1874 and 1879 for 1,017,452.25  marks . The Louisenthal grounds, which were destroyed by Prussian shelling in 1813, were used . The courthouse was intended for use by a president, two directors, seven councilors and three prosecutors.

With the entry into force of the Reich Justice Acts on October 1, 1879, there was a renewed restructuring of the jurisdiction in local , regional and higher regional courts . The district court of Erfurt became the district court of Erfurt again. The local responsibilities continued to exist.

In 1933 the " Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases " came into force and a hereditary health court was set up at the Erfurt Regional Court . In 1940 a special tribunal was also set up at the court.

After the end of the Second World War , the Soviet military administration in Germany assigned the Erfurt administrative district to the State of Thuringia and the Erfurt regional court subordinated to the Jena Higher Regional Court . The higher regional court was relocated to Gera in August 1945 and to Erfurt in February 1950 . With the administrative reform of 1952, the districts were established in the German Democratic Republic and the states dissolved. This reform also has an impact on the structure of the GDR justice system . As part of the 1952 reform, the Erfurt Regional Court became a district court with local jurisdiction for the entire Erfurt district .

After reunification, all specialized courts , the later higher regional court and the district court were initially under the roof of the Erfurt District Court until the new court structure was set up ; the Erfurt District Court was not re-established until 1993. The first president of the re-established Erfurt Regional Court was Manfred Scherer , who was State Secretary and then Thuringian Minister of the Interior (until 2009). Renate Schwarz was appointed his successor in 2000.

literature

  • Jürgen W. Schmidt / Rudolf Benl: The archive of the year - 130 years ago the courthouse on Erfurt Domplatz was completed, in: Jahrbuch für Erfurter Geschichte Vol. 4 Erfurt 2009 pp. 13–22

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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 40 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 23 ″  E