Schwerin District Court

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Joint building of the regional court and district court Schwerin

The Schwerin Regional Court is a court of the ordinary jurisdiction of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and one of four regional courts in the district of the Rostock Higher Regional Court .

Seat and District of the Court

District Court Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Schwerin District Court
Rostock Regional Court
District Court Neubrandenburg
Stralsund District Court
Location of the regional courts in the respective judicial districts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • LG Schwerin
  • LG Rostock
  • LG Stralsund
  • District Court of Neubrandenburg
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    The seat of the court is the state capital Schwerin .

    The judicial district includes the districts of the district courts Ludwigslust , Schwerin and Wismar , which corresponds to the region of West Mecklenburg or the areas of the independent city of Schwerin and the districts of Ludwigslust-Parchim and Northwest Mecklenburg .

    Judicial district surface population
    District court Ludwigslust 4,334.74 km 2 182,786
    Schwerin District Court 823.12 km 2 134,850
    District court Wismar 1,842.49 km 2 141.910
    Schwerin District Court 7,000.35 km 2 459,546

    In economic crime and building land matters , the court is also responsible for the district of the Neubrandenburg regional court .

    building

    Building on Demmlerplatz

    The listed building Demmlerplatz 1–2 (until 1933 Königsbreite , until 1939 Adolf-Hitler-Platz , until 1945 Blücherplatz ) is dedicated to the court, together with the conference rooms of the Schwerin District Court .

    It was built from 1914 as a uniform Schwerin judicial building according to plans and under the direction of the then ministerial building officer Paul Ehmig , who had previously built the new building for the state main archive. It is divided into a central building and two wings adjoining at right angles, all lightly plastered above the limestone plinth, and has a basement level with the plinth, three full floors and an attic, connected by three staircases; the attic will be used for archival purposes. The center of the central building is accentuated by an outside staircase and, made of sandstone , the double-door portal with flanking columns and a semicircular gable with the Mecklenburg coat of arms. The roof, which has been broken twice, is covered with red tiles and is structured by arched mansard windows, is crowned by a turret with an originally open lantern (whose "lookout", now glazed, offers one of the best views over Schwerin ). The side wings repeat similar motifs as the entrance front of the central building in a more “modest” way. This is followed by a prison building on the courtyard side, which has recently enjoyed great popularity with film producers because of its "unadulterated" traditional interiors. A kind of " bridge of sighs " and an ornate wooden door connects it to the central staircase made of marble and sandstone, which also represents the direct connection between the entrance hall on the mezzanine floor and the originally richly decorated jury room, which protrudes from the first to the second floor . Its entrance doors are flanked by atlantic figures . The interior of the courthouse, which is often paneled with wood, is illuminated by numerous generous windows, some of which are made of colored glass.

    Warning board on the building

    Until mid-1992 the building was the seat of the district court and the district courts of Schwerin-Stadt and Schwerin-Land. During the GDR era, these were housed in the arsenal until 1990 , because the complex on Demmlerplatz was used from 1954 for criminal investigations and the custody of prisoners on remand from the relevant departments of the Schwerin district administration of the Ministry for State Security . A Soviet military tribunal was previously active here, also because of the existing remand prison . The documentation center for the victims of German dictatorships , located in the building complex and accessible from the Obotritenring, is a reminder of this story . A special court also exercised political justice in the building at the time of National Socialism .

    From the end of 1990 to the beginning of 1993, the seat of the Minister for Justice, Federal and European Affairs of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was located in the building complex before moving into a neighboring makeshift building; The employees of the district court now had to move into these. The Ehmig building was initially restored from the outside and - when the district court moved out - from 2007 to 2009 inside. The poor acoustics and unsuitable furnishing of the conference rooms were criticized after the court returned.

    Superordinate and subordinate courts

    The Higher Regional Court of Rostock and the Federal Court of Justice are superordinate to the Schwerin Regional Court. The district courts Ludwigslust, Schwerin and Wismar are subordinate.

    Public prosecutor

    Schwerin Public Prosecutor's Office building

    The Schwerin public prosecutor's office set up at the Schwerin Regional Court is responsible for the entire regional court district. In white-collar criminal matters, her area of ​​responsibility as the public prosecutor's office also extends to the district court district of Neubrandenburg. After German reunification , all the new federal states set up public prosecutor's offices to investigate GDR injustice. The Schwerin public prosecutor's office was responsible for all of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from August 1, 1992 to June 30, 2001.

    The public prosecutor's office is located in the Bleicherufer 15 building .

    See also

    literature

    Web links

    Commons : District Court Schwerin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ Section 3 (1) of the Court Structure Act in the version dated November 11, 2013, GVOBl. MV 1998, pp. 444, 549 .
    2. ↑ § 3 Paragraph 2 Sentence 2 No. 3 of the Court Structure Act in the version dated November 11, 2013.
    3. ↑ Status: June 30, 2014, Statistical Report of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Statistical Office , accessed on May 11, 2015.
    4. ↑ § 8 Paragraph 1 No. 2 of the Ordinance on the Concentration of Competences of the Courts (Concentration Ordinance - KonzVO MV) of March 28, 1994, GVOBl. MV 1994, p. 514 .
    5. ↑ § 5 No. 2 KonzVO MV.
    6. ↑ List of monuments of the state capital Schwerin (PDF; 72.4 kB), p. 8.
    7. ↑ Description also after Jesse (see literature on the article Schwerin ) Vol. 2, p. 515.
    8. ^ In Schwerin Justitia is deaf , Schweriner Volkszeitung from September 22, 2009.
    9. ↑ § 12 Paragraph 3, 4 of the Court Structure Act in the version of November 11, 2013.
    10. ↑ I. No. 2 of the General Administrative Regulation Priority Public Prosecutor's Offices for Processing White-collar Criminal Matters of April 13, 1993 - III A 321 / 3262-17 -, Official Gazette. MV 1993, p. 937 .
    11. ↑ Klaus Marxen , Gerhard Werle , Petra Schäfter, The prosecution of GDR injustice: facts and figures. Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021699-2 , pp. 17–19, ( PDF ; 945 kB, accessed on September 2, 2015).

    Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '52.7 "  N , 11 ° 23' 57.8"  E