New Justice Building (Munich)

New judicial building. View of Elisenstrasse.

The New Justice Building is a court and administration building at Prielmayerstraße 5 in Munich . It is located in the Maxvorstadt district , but directly on the border to Ludwigsvorstadt formed by Prielmayerstraße .

Building history

New judicial building in 1905

The construction of this building in 1905 had become necessary because the Palace of Justice , inaugurated in 1897, turned out to be no longer large enough for the entire tasks of the Munich judiciary after just a few years. The new building was also built by Friedrich von Thiersch , but in contrast to the Old Palace of Justice in the forms of the late Gothic in its transition to the Renaissance with two clock towers and stepped gables. At the time of construction, the brick facades were painted in color on slurry plaster, but this has only survived for a few years, so that today the facade is reminiscent of unplastered and unmounted buildings of the medieval brick Gothic. The designs for the color version are currently in the architecture collection of the Technical University of Munich . The original basic color of the facade was kept white, so that a reference was made to the bright facade of the neighboring Palace of Justice.

The brick-roofed building is a deep rectangular, four-storey and four-winged building block. The base consists of foothills of the Alps . The short sides have seven window axes, the long sides have 15 axes. The windows close in segments. The inner courtyard is divided into two parts. The shorter wings of the building on Prielmayerstrasse and Elisenstrasse are closed off on their east and west sides by high, stepped gables structured by bars. The central axes of these short wings are emphasized by a clock tower with the same gable.

The sculptural decoration of the south portal and the two Roland figures on the front facades of the two towers were created by the Munich sculptor Josef Flossmann . The New Justice Building had electric lighting from the start and an electrically operated passenger elevator next to each main staircase.

The architectural design of the building, like many buildings of the late historicism, aimed to revive local architectural forms and the local building tradition.

use

Today the building houses the Bavarian Constitutional Court and the civil senate of the Munich Higher Regional Court .

literature

• State Ministry of Justice (ed.): The Justizpalast and the new justice building in Munich. Oldenbourg, Munich 1926.
• Franz Zauner : Munich in Art and History. Lindauer, Munich 1914, pp. 154–156.
• Friedrich von Thiersch: The new justice building on Luisenstrasse in Munich. Memorandum to celebrate the opening. L. Werner, Munich 1905.

Web links

Commons : Higher Regional Court Munich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of the building on the website of the OLG Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ muenchen.im-bild.org Retrieved June 17, 2017
2. ↑ Michael Petzet: Monuments in Bavaria: 2. Upper Bavaria. Oldenbourg 1985, ISBN 3-486-5239-10 , p. 268.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '26.3 "  N , 11 ° 33' 46.8"  E