District Court Wuppertal
The Wuppertal Regional Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of six regional courts in the district of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court .
Seat and District of the Court
The seat of the court is Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia . The judicial district includes the cities of Wuppertal, Remscheid and Solingen as well as the communities Erkrath , Haan , Mettmann , Wülfrath , Heiligenhaus and Velbert . It is responsible for around 700,000 people.
building
The courthouse by the architect Carl Ferdinand Busse , one of the oldest in Germany, is located on an island in the Wupper , known as the island of justice , and was inaugurated on May 1, 1854. Today the building only houses the civil chambers of the regional court, while the criminal chambers are housed in the new building opposite. However, the largest meeting room, also for criminal negotiations, is still the jury court room in the old building.
history
The establishment of the Elberfeld Regional Court (as the predecessor of the Wuppertal Regional Court) goes back to an initiative that was supported by Mayor Johann Rütger Brüning and City Councilor August von der Heydt , which on February 26, 1834 in Berlin King Friedrich Wilhelm III. submitted a detailed memorandum and then negotiated with the relevant government agencies. On May 9, 1834, the king signed the decree establishing the regional court. The district court in Elberfeld, which was initially responsible for the city of Elberfeld and the districts of Elberfeld , Solingen and Lennep , was officially opened on November 24, 1834.
The Elberfeld Regional Court was subordinate to the Cologne Court of Appeal . The judicial district of the new Elberfeld Regional Court was separated from that of the Düsseldorf Regional Court and consisted of the following peace courts as courts of first instance:
The court initially had ten judges. The four-story Weber'sche Haus in Herzogstrasse served as a temporary courthouse . On the initiative of the city of Barmen, the Wupperinsel on the Haspeler Brücke , the city boundary between Elberfeld and Barmen, was determined as the new location in 1841 , and the new building was then built, which was inaugurated in 1854.
With the reform of the Reich justice system in 1879 , the Elberfeld Regional Court was subordinated to the Cologne Higher Regional Court and was itself responsible for the Elberfeld-Stadt, Barmen-Stadt, Mettmann, Lennep and parts of the Solingen districts. In 1890 there were 14 judges working in three civil chambers. Due to the steady increase in population, four more civil chambers were established by 1906. With the establishment of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court on September 16, 1906, the Elberfeld Regional Court was subordinated to it.
When the city of Wuppertal was founded and renamed in 1930, the regional court was also renamed accordingly. The regional court district now comprised the cities of Wuppertal, Solingen, Remscheid and parts of the Düsseldorf-Mettmann and Rhein-Wupper districts. For the 100th anniversary of the regional court in 1934, it had a president, 13 directors, 25 judges and four court assessors.
During the Second World War, 30 percent of the courthouse was destroyed. On October 8, 1945, the Wuppertal Regional Court resumed its work with eight judges and was initially responsible for the Wuppertal, Velbert, Solingen and Remscheid district courts and, from February 1946, also for the Langenberg, Mettmann, Remscheid-Lennep and Wermelskirchen district courts. The number of judges rose to 42 by the end of 1947. In 1964, the Wuppertal district court and the public prosecutor's office moved into a new judicial tower built on the island of Justice , which means that the district court not only uses the district court building but also the old district court building from 1908, which is directly opposite could dispose of. Due to further municipal and administrative reforms, jurisdiction for the district courts of Langenberg, Remscheid-Lennep and Wermelskirchen was eliminated.
After the justice tower on the island was demolished in 2001, a new five-story building was moved into in May / June 2005. The three buildings erected on the island of Justice have since housed the Wuppertal Regional Court and District Court as well as the Labor Court. While the number of judges at the regional court had grown to over 70 in the 1980s, in 2010 it still had around 60 judges supported by around 100 non-judges.
List of presidents of the Elberfeld / Wuppertal district court
| President of the Elberfeld / Wuppertal Regional Court | |
| 1834-1847 | Friedrich Ludwig Hoffmann |
| 1848-1875 | Johann Friedrich Philippi (1802-1880) |
| 1875-1882 | Ludwig Paschen |
| 1884-1887 | Joseph Polch |
| 1887-1894 | Werner Hücking (before 1840–1903) |
| 1894-1899 | Viktor Stomps (1826–1907) |
| 1900-1904 | Maximilian Beitzke |
| 1905-1919 | Joseph Heimsoeth (1850–?) |
| 1919-1922 | Paul Mertens (1870-1931) |
| 1922-1945 | Eduard Kleinschmidt (1882–1973) |
| 1945-1950 | Wilhelm Fölsch |
| 1950-1952 | Hugo Heineberg |
| 1953-1961 | Albert Rusche |
| 1961-1976 | Wolfgang Jansen (1911–?) |
| 1976-1984 | Hubert Musall |
| 1984-1991 | Christoph Degenhardt (1927-2013) |
| 1991-2000 | Horst Crummenerl |
| 2001-2017 | Josef Schulte (* 1952) |
| 2018– | Annette Lehmberg (* 1962) |
Superordinate and subordinate courts
The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court is superordinate to the Wuppertal Regional Court. The district courts of Mettmann , Remscheid , Solingen , Velbert and Wuppertal are subordinate .
See also
literature
- Judges' council of the Wuppertal Regional Court (ed.): Jurisprudence and contemporary history 1834–1984. 150 years of the Wuppertal Regional Court. Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1984, ISBN 3-87093-005-5 .
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- Internet presence of the regional court of Wuppertal
- Overview of the jurisdiction of the Wuppertal Regional Court
Individual evidence
- ↑ Building history of the Wuppertal district court ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed November 2010
- ^ HA Fecht: The court constitutions of the German states, 1868, p. 175, online
- ↑ Dr. Annette Lehmberg: New President of the Wuppertal Regional Court. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on February 19, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 28 " N , 7 ° 9 ′ 46" E