Heilbronn District Court

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The district court building at Wilhelmstrasse 8 in Heilbronn

The Heilbronn Regional Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction based in Heilbronn . It is responsible for litigation in the field of criminal law and civil law .

Higher and lower courts, jurisdiction

Map of the district court of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg

The higher regional court of Stuttgart is superordinate to the regional court in Heilbronn, which in turn is subordinate to the Federal Court of Justice .

The district courts of Besigheim , Marbach am Neckar , Vaihingen an der Enz , Brackenheim , Heilbronn , Künzelsau , Öhringen and the district court of Schwäbisch Hall are subordinate to the court .

history

The Royal Regional Court in Deutschhof (1910)

Initially there was a Württemberg Higher Regional Court in Heilbronn, and as part of a court reform, Heilbronn became the seat of a district court . In 1879, with the implementation of the Imperial Court Constitutional Law , the District Court became the "Royal District Court of Heilbronn". The staff at that time consisted of thirteen judges , the president of the court Gottlieb Karl von Huber and nineteen clerks. Seven lawyers were admitted to the court at that time. The district of the court comprised nine higher offices with the associated local courts . The court sat like the district court in the Deutschhof before it burned out in 1944 after bombing.

In 1924, the District Court of Backnang was spun off from the judicial district and incorporated into the district of the District Court of Stuttgart ; the District Court of Weinsberg was dissolved in 1926. When the Hall Regional Court was dissolved in 1932 , the judicial district expanded to include the Gaildorf , Schwäbisch Hall, Künzelsau and Öhringen district courts . Of the thirty lawyers admitted to the regional court, six had to give up their work during the Nazi era because they were Jews. The lawyer Siegfried Gumbel finally died in the concentration camp, the other lawyers were able to emigrate. In 1943 the district courts of Gaildorf and Neckarsulm , which were subordinate to the Heilbronn Regional Court, were effectively dissolved.

After the Second World War, the district court was initially divided into different buildings and moved to Frau Alfred Knorr's villa at Bismarckstrasse 50 in 1947. However, due to lack of space, court sessions were also held in the former building of the Heilbronn district court at 63 Bismarckstrasse. In 1951, construction began on a new regional court building at Wilhelmstrasse 8, which was then moved into in 1958 and which also housed the Heilbronn public prosecutor's office until 2002. In 1995 the regional court lost jurisdiction over the district of the Maulbronn local court to the Karlsruhe regional court .

Processes

Portal of the new district court building from 1951

One of the most important trials that took place at the Heilbronn District Court was a murder trial from 1961. The defendant had strangled his wife, dismembered and then thrown the body parts into the Neckar . The corpse was subsequently not found. Since no intention to kill could be proven, he was convicted of bodily harm resulting in death.

In 1965 there was the Heilbronn moral trial , which involved pornographic recordings of a merchant that he had sent, as well as partner swaps. The man was convicted of five severe pomposing acts in unity with selfish pimping and dissemination of lewd pictures and writings.

In 1977 another murder trial of a missing corpse took place. The perpetrator was convicted due to traces of blood on his car.

In April 2006, an acquittal in the first instance before the Heilbronn district court against the suspect of an armed robbery, known as the “baker of Siegelsbach”, caused a media stir.

President

See also

Web links

Commons : Landgericht Heilbronn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '15.8 "  N , 9 ° 13' 7.9"  E