Higher Regional Court of Rostock

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Higher Regional Court of Rostock

The higher regional court in Rostock is the only higher regional court (OLG) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Seat and District of the Court

The court has its seat in the Hanseatic city of Rostock . The judicial district includes the districts of the subordinate regional courts and thus the entire area of ​​the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In the Higher Regional Court of Rostock 1505 are lawyers and general counsel attorneys admitted (as at 1st January 2018).

history

Formerly Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Higher Appeal Court in Rostock. University of Zoology since 1880

As a result of Article 12 of the German Federal Act of 1815, the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Higher Appeal Court was founded on October 1, 1818, with its seat in Parchim , whose judicial district included both Mecklenburg Grand Duchies. From the Mecklenburg court and district court in Güstrow , to which this was first transferred from 1807, it took over the function of the appellate authority in Mecklenburg with jurisdiction for the two states of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz . In 1840 the Higher Appeal Court (OAG) moved to Rostock and soon resided in the prestigious building built between 1842 and 1845 on today's Universitätsplatz. In 1879 the Higher Appeal Court was renamed the Higher Regional Court, as intended by the Reich Justice Acts of 1877 to standardize the nomenclature .

Mecklenburg Higher Regional Court around 1910

In April 1942, the Mecklenburg Higher Regional Court, which had moved to a building at Langen Strasse 65 and Badstüberstrasse in 1880 , was bombed by a British air raid . In autumn the Higher Regional Court moved to the justice building in Schwerin , and from 1943 they spoke of the Schwerin Higher Regional Court. Responsible since 1945 for Mecklenburg and Vorpommern and under new management by OLG President Franz Unikower which is moved further in Schwerin Higher Regional Court in 1952 with the abolition of the countries in East Germany in September for the District Court Schwerin reshaped. In addition to the one in Schwerin, new district courts were formed in Neubrandenburg and Rostock , all of them as higher courts with regional jurisdiction for the respective new GDR districts .

building

portal

The court is located in the prestigious Wallstraße , house number 3 in the listed, neo-Gothic estate house .

The building was built between 1889 and 1893 by order of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III. built according to plans by Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel and the Mecklenburg knights and landscape as the administrative and court seat of the United States of the two Mecklenburgs. The typical style of Wilhelmine state architecture ( historicism ) combines elements from neo-gothic to neo-baroque in a representative monumental building and is assigned to the Hanover architecture school . The ornate coat of arms relief in the main facade is a work by the sculptor Albert Kasch from Bad Doberan .

From the outside in red brick and equipped with turrets and decorative gables, the inside of the building stands out thanks to the atrium that extends down to the basement with surrounding galleries. Also noteworthy is the two-storey, richly decorated ballroom, paneled in dark wood.

Still images

Figures at the front

In the main facade there are 4 statues of Mecklenburg princes: the dukes Johann Albrecht I and Christian Ludwig II , Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II (all Mecklenburg-Schwerin) and Grand Duke Georg (Mecklenburg-Strelitz). Ludwig Brunow and Oskar Rassau each created two statues .

Mosaics

Coat of arms with the motto: " Per aspera ad astra "

On the front opposite the entrance above the main staircase there are several colored mosaics, made by the company Puhl & Wagner from Berlin. They have the following meanings:

Years:

August 1, 1523: the day the Union of Estates was founded . An association of knights and landowners resident in the state of Mecklenburg, the clergy and the landscape .

April 18, 1755: Signing of the Land constitutional settlement of inheritance , an estate constitution between the dukes of Mecklenburg, the Mecklenburg knights and landscape.

Coat of arms:

The three coats of arms stand for the three knightly circles of the Mecklenburg state:

  1. Mecklenburg - The coat of arms with a bull's head can be traced for the first time in 1229 in the seal of Johann I of Mecklenburg after the first division of the state.
  2. Herrschaft Werle (Wenden) - The golden griffin striding to the right on a blue background was used as the coat of arms of Heinrich Borwin I (1181–1227).
  3. Stargard - The lower right coat of arms stands for the Stargard rule (later part of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ).

History of the building

Estates around 1895

Inaugurated on October 2, 1893, the building was one of the central political locations of the Mecklenburg corporate state until the end of the monarchy . It was the seat of the Select Committee , the co-regency estates of Mecklenburg between the diets as a counterpart of the rulers of both Mecklenburg parts of the country Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Until the end of the empire and the monarchy in Mecklenburg in 1918 it housed all the upper authorities of the estates and served various special institutions of the Mecklenburg estates as the judicial and administrative seat. It was the seat of the Ritterschaftliche Brandkasse, the tax and cadastral authorities, the fire insurance of the Mecklenburg cities, the Ritterschaftlichen credit association and the entails authority. After the First World War and the fall of the old Mecklenburg corporate state, the Select Committee dissolved; its rooms and the representation rooms were freely used.

After 1920 the building was gradually converted into an administration building. It was the seat of the road construction office, the state treasury, the labor court, the technical emergency aid and the police administration of the Rostock area. The Ritterschaftliche Brandkasse, the fire insurance of the Mecklenburg cities and the Ritterschaftliche Kreditverein moved their headquarters from the Ständehaus to its immediate vicinity in 1928.

On October 13, 1933, the state parliaments of the two Mecklenburg Free States unanimously passed the draft law on the unification of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz to form Mecklenburg. Afterwards, the unification was carried out with a grand ceremonial act of state, among the guests of honor were Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg in the Rostock House of Estates.

Until May 1945, the entails authority maintained its seat in the Ständehaus. In addition, it was used by changing state authorities, in 1934 and 1935 also for show trials of the National Socialist judiciary .

For a few years after 1945 the building remained the seat of state administrations of the state of Mecklenburg and housed the German People's Police , among other things .

In 1953 the National People's Army of the GDR took over the Ständehaus and used it until reunification .

Since July 1, 1992, the Ständehaus has been the seat of the Rostock Higher Regional Court.

Superordinate and subordinate courts

Higher Regional Court of Rostock (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Schwerin District Court
Rostock Regional Court
District Court Neubrandenburg
Stralsund District Court
Location of the regional courts in the respective judicial districts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • LG Schwerin
  • LG Rostock
  • LG Stralsund
  • District Court of Neubrandenburg
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    The Federal Court of Justice is superordinate to the Rostock Higher Regional Court .

    The regional courts of Neubrandenburg , Rostock , Schwerin and Stralsund are subordinate .

    Public prosecutor

    Seat of the Rostock Public Prosecutor's Office

    Rostock also has Prosecutor General of the country set up, analogous to the court building, the public prosecution in district courts Neubrandenburg, Rostock, Schwerin and Stralsund are subordinate. It is housed in the listed building at the address Patriotischer Weg 120a .

    See also

    Web links

    Commons : Ständehaus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ Section 2 (1) of the Court Structure Act in the version dated November 11, 2013, GVOBl. MV 1998, pp. 444, 549.
    2. ↑ Section 2 (2) in conjunction with Section 3 (2) and Section 4 (2) of the Court Structure Act as well as Section 9b of the Implementing Act , each in the version dated November 11, 2013.
    3. ↑ Federal Bar Association, www.brak.de: Large membership statistics as of January 1, 2018. (PDF; 37.3 kB) Accessed September 5, 2018 .
    4. ↑ a b The historic institute building on Universitätsplatz. In: History of animal physiology in Rostock. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved October 22, 2015.
    5. ↑ a b c d See information about the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Higher Appeal Court in the catalog of the German National Library
    6. ↑ The most powerful building survives the attacks. In: April 1942: Hail of bombs on Rostock. at: ndr.de , accessed on October 22, 2015.
    7. ↑ Thomas Volgmann: 70 years ago: Bombs on Rostock: When Rostock sank in a firestorm. In: North German Latest News . April 21, 2012.
    8. ↑ Manfred Krieck, Gisela Pekrul: Schwerin on historical postcards. Part 3: City extensions after 1884. 2010, ISBN 978-3-931646-39-4 , p. 29.
    9. ↑ List of monuments of the Hanseatic City of Rostock ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 130 kB), p. 46.
    10. ^ The seat of the [Mecklenburg] Stargard estates remained in Neubrandenburg .
    11. ↑ Beate Behrens: With Hitler to power. Rise of National Socialism in Mecklenburg and Lübeck. Rostock, 1998, pp. 161-164.
    12. ↑ Section 12 of the Court Structure Act in the version dated November 11, 2013.
    13. ↑ List of monuments of the Hanseatic City of Rostock. Status: September 2016.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 33.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / rathaus.rostock.de  

    Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 13 ″  N , 12 ° 8 ′ 23.1 ″  E