Social Court Gelsenkirchen

The Gelsenkirchen Justice Center on Bochumer Strasse has been the seat of the Gelsenkirchen Social Court since 2016

View over Gelsenkirchen. The conspicuous yellow skyscraper on the left, built in 1973, was the seat of the social court for many years until the Gelsenkirchen judiciary moved in 2016.

The Social Court of Gelsenkirchen , based in the city of Gelsenkirchen, is a social justice court and one of eight social courts in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is headed by Silvia Fleck as president.

Judicial district

The judicial district extends to the cities of Bottrop , Gelsenkirchen, Herne , Castrop-Rauxel , Datteln , Dorsten , Gladbeck , Haltern am See , Herten , Marl , Oer-Erkenschwick , Recklinghausen and Waltrop .

Court seat

The court, which was built in 1959, was distributed over five floors in the 17-story Hamburg-Mannheimer high-rise at Ahstrasse 22 in Gelsenkirchen's old town for decades . After completion of the in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf at Gelsenkirchen science park created Justice Center Gelsenkirchen the Social Court drew the end January 2016 (together with the Gelsenkirchen District Court and the Labor Court Gelsenkirchen , where five court rooms were allocated) in the new complex at the Bochum Road 79 to him.

Superior courts

The regional social court of North Rhine-Westphalia in Essen is the direct superior instance . The appeal body is the Federal Social Court in Kassel .

Lawyers who worked at the Social Court in Gelsenkirchen

• Helge Loytved , (presiding judge at the 9th and 10th Senate of the Federal Social Court)

See also

• List of German courts
• List of courts in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Web links

• Website of the Social Court of Gelsenkirchen
• Overview of the jurisprudence of the Social Court in Gelsenkirchen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörn Stender: Logistical challenge for Gelsenkirchen dishes. In: WAZ of January 7, 2016, accessed on February 21, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '29.7 "  N , 7 ° 5' 39.7"  E