Palais de Justice (Paris)
The Palais de Justice de Paris ( pa'lɛ də ʒys'tis , German Justizpalast ) is an architectural ensemble in the 1st arrondissement on the Île de la Cité ; it occupies about a third of the area of the island and is home to the main institutions of French jurisdiction. The palace is bordered by the Quai de l'Horloge to the north, by the Boulevard du Palais to the east, by the Quai des Orfèvres to the south and by Rue de Harlay to the west .
history
The place where the Palais de Justice stands today was formerly the Palais de la Cité , the royal residence in Paris from the 10th to the 14th centuries, of which only the Conciergerie and the Sainte-Chapelle have survived.
When King Charles V decided to swap the Palais de la Cité for the Hôtel Saint-Paul , the abandoned palace housed his administration: the Parlement , the Chambre des comptes (Court of Auditors) and the Chancellery . 1776, under King Louis XVI. , the parts of the building between the Conciergerie and the Sainte-Chapelle fell victim to a fire. The facade on the Cour de Mai, the main entrance to the palace, was reconstructed between 1783 and 1786. During the French Revolution , from April 6, 1793 to May 31, 1795, the palace was the seat of the Revolutionary Tribunal .
At the time of the Restoration , the Palais de Justice took on a new dimension as trials became as important as political debates. New offices were created and the premises were soon no longer sufficient, so that first construction work began. The July monarchy prompted a further expansion of the palace. Jean-Nicolas Huyot was commissioned to carry out the extension with a majestic building. In 1840, after Huyot's death, Louis Joseph Duc and Honoré Daumet were appointed to complete the project. King Louis Philippe did not see the completion in office, Napoleon III remained . reserved - but only towards the end of his reign: the final work was in progress when the Second Empire collapsed. A fire on May 24, 1871, at the time of the Paris Commune , destroyed almost a quarter of a century of work. Years later, Daumet (Duc had died in 1879) was appointed architect for the palace, and reconstruction began in 1883.
Usage today
Even today, the Palais de Justice is one of the nerve centers of the French judiciary, as it houses the Cour de cassation (Court of Cassation), the highest court of ordinary justice. The Cour d'Appel de Paris (Court of Appeal) of Paris also resides here as well as the Tribunal de Grande Instance . The immediate proximity to the Direction régionale de la police judiciaire de la Préfecture de police , which occupies the buildings on the Quai des Orfèvres, simplifies communication between the executive and the judiciary.
New building
The move of the Tribunal de Grande Instance (TGI), which is cramped in the Palais de Justice, into a specially constructed building with an area of 115,000 m² has been under discussion for several years. In order to lead this project to its goal, the “ Établissement du palais de justice de Paris” (EPPJP) was founded. On January 25, 2005, the government under Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin decided that of the three sites under discussion in the Paris Rive Gauche development area (ZAC), Austerlitz , Tolbiac and Masséna, the Tolbiac site should be preferred. The Paris Mayor and Serge Blisko , Mayor of the 13th arrondissement, objected to the fact that the construction of 1,000 apartments and the creation of a 2-hectare garden should ensure the connection of the newly developed area to the existing substance of the old district. They advocated the Masséna site , which is delimited by the multi-lane boulevard périphérique in the west and the busy Boulevards des Maréchaux in the east, and had a design submitted by the architect Yves Lion , which had already been involved in the planning of the TGI in the past Draguignan and the TGI in Lyon .
The magistrate initially rejected the urban project with reference to the lack of connection to the public transport network and in November 2006 spoke out completely against the move. Regardless of this, the EPPJP announced an international competition for Tolbiac in spring 2007 . On November 27, 2007, the following were among the 200 participants: Josep Foses (Spain), Pacôme Bommier (3 Box, France) as well as Fernando Donis and Katrin Betschinger (Netherlands). In February 2008, the chairman of the tribunal asked to stop all projects and to consider moving to the hospital building of the Hôtel-Dieu, not far from the Palace of Justice , whose activities are to be reduced by 80% in the future. In November, the TGI was finally forced to have a provisional audience hall built in the entrance area of the Palace of Justice in view of two impending trials. The cost was € 600,000. In 2012 the decision was made to build the New Palace of Justice in Paris in the north-west of the metropolis. It was completed in June 2017.
Web links
- Histoire du Palais de justice sur le site "Le Paris pittoresque"
- Some photos of the palace
- Paris Rive Gauche, Le Tribunal de Grande Instance
- Le bâtonnier de Paris opposé au déménagement du TGI à Tolbiac in batiactu, February 11, 2008
Footnotes
- ↑ Cf. Xavier Normand- ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2016 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. Bodard: Nos marches pour le palais , Gazette du Palais, 17./18. November 2006 ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2016 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.
- ↑ See Salle Statistics en kit , JT de TF1, November 21, 2008
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '23 " N , 2 ° 20' 44" E