Landshut District Court

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The Landshut Regional Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction . It is one of 22 regional courts in the Free State of Bavaria .

history

The forerunner of today's regional court is the Bavarian district court , founded in 1857 , which was converted into a regional court with the Courts Constitution Act of 1879 .

District Court District

The district of the Landshut Regional Court extends to the following districts in addition to the independent city of Landshut :

726 lawyers (as of January 17, 2019) are admitted to the Landshut district court .

Courthouse

The former building of the regional court was built in 1879 on Dreifaltigkeitsplatz . In November 1969, the court moved into the newly built central justice building at Maximilianstrasse 22 .

On April 7, 2009, a shooting broke out in the courthouse (the perpetrator smuggled a pistol into the building) in which a party in an inheritance process shot three other parties involved in the same process who were related to him. Two people were killed in the incident, including the perpetrator who shot himself in the head, and two people were seriously injured, mainly by the shooter's duds. Since the incident, security controls in civil proceedings have been tightened significantly.

Superordinate and subordinate courts

The Landshut Regional Court is one of ten regional courts over which the Munich Higher Regional Court is superordinate; subordinate are the local courts in Eggenfelden , Erding , Freising , Landau an der Isar and Landshut .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Munich Bar Association, www.rak-muenchen.de: lawyer / Membership Directory. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Landshut: Two dead after shooting in Bavarian court , Spiegel Online , accessed on April 7, 2009.

Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 17.9 ″  N , 12 ° 9 ′ 26 ″  E