District Court of Kulmbach

Former district court (view from the east)

The district court of Kulmbach was a Bavarian district court of the older order that existed from 1812 to 1879 and was based in Kulmbach in what is now the district of Kulmbach . In the Kingdom of Bavaria , the regional courts were judicial and administrative authorities, which were replaced in administrative matters by the district offices in 1862 and in legal matters by the local courts in 1879 .

In 1812 the district court of Kulmbach was established in the course of the administrative restructuring of Bavaria . After the establishment of the Kingdom of Bavaria, this was added to the Mainkreis , whose capital was Bamberg .

location

The approximately 15 × 20 m building is located at 33 Obere Stadt Street . It is just 50 m to the west, below the Petrikirche , at an altitude of 317  m above sea level. NN .

description

The building was built between 1561 and 1563 as a former margravial chancellery. The two-storey secular building was built by Caspar Vischer and built over even older underground settlement parts of Kulmbach. The building is a listed building .

Web links

Commons : Kulmbach Obere Stadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Karl Friedrich Hohn (Ed.): Geographical-statistical description of the Upper Main district . J. Dederich, Bamberg 1827, p. 183-195 ( digitized version ).
• Circle of Bavarian Scholars (Ed.): Upper Franconia and Middle Franconia (=  Bavaria. Regional and Folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Volume 3 ). Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1865, DNB  56034290X , p. 577-580 ( digitized version ).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Culmbach district court . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 574-577 ( digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Volkert (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 502 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the royal district court in Kulmbach on the Bayernatlas Classik
2. ↑ LfD list Kulmbach , page 21 (.pdf.)

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 22.6 ″  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 39.2 ″  E