Offenburg Regional Court

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Courthouse

The Offenburg Regional Court is one of nine regional courts in the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court district in Baden-Württemberg . It ranks sixth among these regional courts in terms of the number of court residents.

The city of Offenburg with around 59,000 inhabitants is located in Mittelbaden between the Rhine and the Black Forest. It is the seat of the administration of the Ortenau district . The closest major cities in Germany are Karlsruhe in the north and Freiburg im Breisgau in the south. Closer however is Strasbourg in France.

history

In the Grand Duchy of Baden , the area of which had grown considerably as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 and the Rhine Confederation Act of 1806, jurisdiction in the higher instances was exercised by the Higher Court with its seat in Bruchsal and three, later four, courts. The district offices assigned to the administration, including Offenburg-Stadt and Offenburg-Land, were responsible for the first instance proceedings. The judicial work in the district offices was carried out by civil servants.

By ordinance of July 18, 1857, it was determined that from September 1, 1857 the administration of justice will be exercised through organizational outsourcing from the district offices to local courts instead of the district offices. These were set up at the headquarters of the district offices, including the Offenburg District Court . The judicial officials now carried the title of magistrate. Although Section 14 of the constitutional charter for the Grand Duchy of Baden of August 22, 1818 contained the standardization of judicial independence ("The courts are independent within the scope of their competence"), there was no complete separation between executive and legislative branches . The magistrates were still civil servants who lacked personal independence in the sense of today's Article 97 of the Basic Law . The next higher instance of the Offenburg District Court was the Bruchsal Court Court.

Due to the Baden Judicial Constitution Act of May 19, 1864 and the associated sovereign ordinance of July 12, 1864, Offenburg became the seat of a district and court court. The law introducing the Reich Justice Laws in the Grand Duchy of Baden on March 4, 1879 established regional courts in place of the district courts. Offenburg became the seat of a regional court by ordinance of April 23, 1879.

Courthouse

Knight house

Both the district and court courts and later the regional court originally had their seat in the old knighthood building in Rittergasse. In December 1956, they moved into the newly constructed building on the corner of Hindenburgstrasse and Moltkestrasse in Oststadt. The Offenburg District Court is also located in the same building.

There is a large mural by the painter and graphic artist HAP Grieshaber in the staircase hall of the north wing (hall wing) . It is based on scenes from the Sachsenspiegel , the oldest German legal book. The following motifs and sentences are taken from the collection of Low German law and arranged from top to bottom on the wall, which looks like a tapestry:

  • Since God created and redeemed human beings (from the torment of hell), the inequality is incomprehensible.
  • Some say the bondage begins with Cain, who slew his brother.
    Cain is seen hitting a rake. A sheep's head looks down. Other people point to Noah who blessed two of his sons and cursed the third. The picture shows Noah in the ark .
  • In truth, the bondage comes from coercion, prison and unjust violence, which one later declares to be right.
    In the picture a prisoner is chained to a pillar.

The Last Judgment is depicted under the stairs .

District Court District

Regional court district Offenburg (dark) in the higher regional court district Karlsruhe (light green) in Baden-Württemberg

The district courts of Gengenbach , Kehl , Lahr , Oberkirch , Offenburg and Wolfach belong to the district . The district includes the majority of the Ortenaukreis with 39 communities and around 340,000 inhabitants.

organization

In 2005, in addition to the President and the Vice-President, five presiding judges and ten judges were active at the Offenburg Regional Court, three of which were probationary judges .

In the 2005 financial year, the Offenburg Regional Court had five civil chambers , including a chamber for commercial matters, two large criminal chambers , including the jury chamber , three appeal chambers, two youth chambers and a penal enforcement chamber . Most of the judges work in several chambers. In total, the Offenburg Regional Court employs around 60 people.

See also

literature

  • Ortwin Henssler: 100 years of the court system. Higher Regional Court Karlsruhe and Stuttgart 1879-1979. Holtzhauer, Villingen-Schwenningen 1979, ( Die Justiz. Special issue vol. 28, September 1979, ISSN  0722-7612 ).
  • Werner Münchbach (Hrsg.): Festschrift 200 years Badisches Oberhofgericht - Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe. Müller, Heidelberg 2003.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 12 "  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 12.5"  E