Administrative court Arnsberg

Building of the administrative court Arnsberg

The Arnsberg Administrative Court is a court of administrative jurisdiction and one of seven administrative courts in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Seat and District of the Court

The administrative court (VG) has its seat in Arnsberg in the Sauerland . The judicial district extends to the area of the independent cities of Hagen and Hamm as well as the Ennepe-Ruhr district , the Hochsauerland district , the Märkische district , the district of Olpe , the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein and the district of Soest .

Courthouse

Front view

The court is located in the west of the old town of Arnsberg at Jägerstraße 1 .

With the permission of the sovereign , the provincial estates of the Duchy of Westphalia had a penitentiary built from stones from the Arnsberg Castle , which was destroyed in the Seven Years' War . In the Hessian era (after 1803) the building was used as a barracks. After the transition of the former Duchy of Westphalia to Prussia (1816), the building served as the seat of the Arnsberg district government . In 1883 two rear wings were added. Nevertheless, the building became too small for the increasing number of officials. In the 1920s, therefore, the headquarters of the government was relocated . Various administrative offices took turns in the old building before the administrative court took over the house.

management

Ulrich Morgenstern was President of the Arnsberg Administrative Court from June 1, 1993 to December 31, 2015. He was succeeded on January 13, 2016 by Jürgen Jaenecke, who previously served as the presiding judge at the Higher Administrative Court in Münster and as a judge at the Arnsberg Administrative Court in the 1990s.