Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg

VGH building in Mannheim

The Baden-Württemberg Administrative Court forms the top of the administrative jurisdiction in Baden-Württemberg . It is a higher administrative court within the meaning of the administrative court order (cf. § 184 VwGO).

Seat

The administrative court of Baden-Württemberg has its seat in Mannheim ( § 1 Abs. 1 AGVwGO).

Instance and jurisdiction

Administrative courts in Baden-Württemberg

The VGH Baden-Württemberg is subordinate to the Federal Administrative Court . Subordinate courts are the administrative courts of Freiburg , Karlsruhe , Sigmaringen and Stuttgart ( Section 1 (2) AGVwGO).

As an appeal instance, the Administrative Court is responsible for appeals and complaints against decisions of the subordinate administrative courts, in the first instance for proceedings that relate to certain major technical projects listed in Section 48 (1) VwGO, for proceedings against association bans as well as for administrative judicial review proceedings against autonomous statutes and ordinances .

In 2007, 3,618 new cases were received and 4,070 cases were completed. For example, there were asylum procedures, lawsuits against tuition fees and lawsuits against the expansion of airports or the construction of highways.

history

In 1863 the first administrative court in the then Grand Duchy of Baden was established in its capital Karlsruhe .

After the end of National Socialist rule, the states of Baden (South Baden) , Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern , which were established in 1945, each set up their own administrative courts in Freiburg, Stuttgart (with a branch in Karlsruhe) and in Bebenhausen near Tübingen.

In the course of the emergence of the state of Baden-Württemberg from the three south-west German states, an organizational reorganization and institutional concentration of administrative jurisdiction became inevitable after just a few years. The state parliament of Baden-Württemberg established the VGH by law in 1958 and, after heated discussions, determined the city of Mannheim as the seat after the state government had initially proposed Sigmaringen .

building

Entrance to the administrative court

From 1959 to 1968, the central building of the Mannheim Palace was the domicile of the Mannheim Senate, until the Administrative Court moved to the former administration building of Weyhenmeyer & Co. Kohlenkontor at Schubertstrasse 11 at the end of 1968. This building was erected in the years 1951/1952 in a prestigious location in the east of Mannheim. The building plans are said to have been completed by the Mannheim architect Wilhelm Platen in the " New Objectivity " style of the 1920s before the Second World War .

The U-shaped building with dark red clinker cladding and a base made of travertine is erected as a three-story, elongated central front with 19 window axes on either side of a massive main portal. Two side wings delimit an inner courtyard; a generously sized green area with trees surrounds the building complex, which extends over an entire square.