List of courts in Germany from 1816 to 1879
This list contains the historical courts in Germany from 1816 to 1879 , i.e. between the formation of the German Confederation in 1815 and the entry into force of the Reich Justice Acts in 1879. Until then, the individual federal states were responsible for organizing the courts. The list is therefore broken down by state.
Historical courts with jurisdiction for Germany or larger parts of Germany
There were no nationwide courts in the German Confederation. Only with the formation of the North German Confederation were such nationwide courts established.
- Federal Higher Commercial Court (from 1869)
- Reichsrayonkommission in Berlin (from 1871)
- Federal Office for the Homeland System in Berlin (from 1871)
- Disciplinary Court Leipzig (from 1873) and the Disciplinary Chambers in Potsdam, Frankfurt a. O., Königsberg, Danzig, Stettin, Köslin, Bromberg, Posen, Magdeburg, Erfurt, Breslau, Liegnitz, Opole, Munster, Arnsberg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Trier, Darmstadt, Frankfurt a. M., Kassel, Hanover, Schleswig, Leipzig, Karlsruhe, Schwerin, Lübeck and Bremen.
Higher Appeal Courts
With the end of the old empire , the jurisdiction of the previous highest imperial courts also ended. It was therefore necessary for the states remaining in the German Confederation to receive a corresponding third and final instance to replace the former imperial courts. Article 12 of the Federal Act of 1815 therefore required the states to set up courts of appeal as the third and final instance in civil and criminal matters. Each state should have at least one such court, and states with fewer than 300,000 residents should form such a court with their relatives or other states. In many federal states, especially those with a constitution, the Higher Appeal Court also formed the state court , which had to investigate and decide complaints of the estates against higher civil servants, ministers, etc.
dish | Seat | State (s) | founding | Remarks |
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Supreme judicial authority Vienna | Vienna | Those parts of Austria that were part of the German Confederation | 1749 | from 1848: Supreme Court (Austria) |
Prussian Higher Tribunal | Berlin | Those parts of Prussia that were part of the German Confederation | 1853 | Until January 1, 1853, these were the Secret Higher Tribunal (since 1782) and the Rhenish Auditing and Cassation Court (since 1819). From 1867 to 1874 also the Berlin Higher Appeal Court for Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Hessen-Nassau, Lauenburg, Waldeck-Pyrmont. |
Higher Appeal Court Munich | Munich | Kingdom of Bavaria | 1809 | Successor to the auditorium established in 1625; also: the court of cassation for the Rhine Palatinate in Munich |
Royal High Court of Appeal | Dresden | Kingdom of Saxony | 1835 | |
Mannheim Higher Court | Mannheim | Grand Duchy of Baden | 1803 | |
Higher Appeal Court Kassel | kassel | Kurhessen | 1746 | |
Court of Appeal and Cassation Darmstadt | Darmstadt | Grand Duchy of Hesse , Hesse-Homburg | 1747/1832 | until 1824/25 also for the two Hohenzollerns |
Higher Appeal Court Wiesbaden | Wiesbaden | Duchy of Nassau | 1818 | Successor to the Hadamar Higher Appeal Court founded in 1804 , which was relocated to Diez in 1810 |
Supreme Court (Luxembourg) | Luxembourg | Grand Duchy of Luxembourg | 1830 | previously Liège High Court |
Higher Appeal Court of Celle | Celle | Kingdom of Hanover (from 1857 also for Lippe-Detmold ) | 1711 | |
Upper Tribunal Stuttgart | Stuttgart | Württemberg | 1805/1817 | Successor to the Württemberg court; from June 1824 also for Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and October 1825 for Hohenzollern-Hechingen ; responsible for both Hohenzollern until 1851 |
Higher Appeal Court Wolfenbüttel | Wolfenbüttel | Braunschweig ; until 1851/56 also for Waldeck , until 1857 for Lippe-Detmold and for Schaumburg-Lippe | January 3, 1817 | until 1855; then higher court Wolfenbüttel |
Higher Appeal Court Jena | Jena | Ernestine Duchies and Reuss | January 7, 1817 | |
Higher Appeal Court Zerbst | Zerbst | Anhalt and Schwarzburg states | October 1, 1817 | until 1849; then higher appeal court Jena |
Parchim Court of Appeal | Parchim | Both Mecklenburg states | October 1, 1818 | until 1840; then Rostock Higher Appeal Court |
Court of Appeal Innsbruck | innsbruck | Principality of Liechtenstein | 1817 | |
Higher appeal court for the state of Oldenburg | Oldenburg | Grand Duchy of Oldenburg | 1814 | |
Higher Appeal Court of the Four Free Cities | Lübeck | Bremen, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main and Lübeck | November 13, 1820 | |
Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg Higher Appeal Court | Kiel | Duchies of Schleswig , Holstein and Lauenburg | October 1, 1834 | 1850 to 1867 for Holstein and Lauenburg |
State Courts
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List of courts in the Austrian Empire (until the end of the German Confederation)
- Supreme Court (in Vienna )
- List of dishes in the Archduchy of Austria
- List of dishes in the Kingdom of Bohemia
- List of courts in the Margraviate of Moravia
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Silesia
- List of dishes in the ducal county of Tyrol
- List of dishes in Vorarlberg (Austrian Empire)
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Salzburg
- List of courts in the Kingdom of Illyria
- List of courts in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
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List of dishes in Prussia
- List of courts in the province of Brandenburg
- List of dishes in the province of Pomerania
- List of dishes in the province of Silesia
- List of dishes in the Rhine Province
- List of dishes in the province of Westphalia
- List of courts in the province of Saxony
- List of courts in East Prussia
- List of courts in West Prussia
- List of dishes in the Poznan Province
- List of courts in the province of Schleswig-Holstein
- List of courts in the Kingdom of Bavaria
- List of courts in the Kingdom of Saxony
- List of courts in the Kingdom of Hanover
- List of courts in the Kingdom of Württemberg
- List of dishes in the Grand Duchy of Baden
- List of courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- List of courts in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (German Confederation)
- List of courts in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- List of courts in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- List of dishes in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
- List of dishes in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
- List of courts in the Electorate of Hesse
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Holstein
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Schleswig
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Nassau
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Braunschweig
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Saxony-Hildburghausen
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Anhalt-Köthen
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg
- List of dishes in the Duchy of Limburg (1839–1866)
- List of dishes in the Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
- List of dishes in the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- List of courts in the Principality of Liechtenstein
- List of dishes in the Principality of Lippe
- List of dishes in the Principality of Reuss older line
- List of courts in the Principality of Reuss Younger Line
- List of dishes in the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe
- List of dishes in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- List of dishes in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- List of dishes in the Principality of Waldeck
- List of courts in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg
- List of dishes in the Free City of Bremen
- List of dishes in the Free City of Frankfurt
- List of dishes in the Free City of Hamburg
- List of dishes in the Free City of Lübeck
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Kotulla: German Constitutional Law 1806-1918, A collection of documents and introductions . 1. Volume: All of Germany, Anhalt States and Baden. 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-29289-0 , pp. 121-122, books.google.de