Established 15th century Height 22 m | Country Germany Phone +49 30 90150 | |
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Location Elßholzstraße 30-31, Berlin-Schöneberg Authorized by Website berlin.de/gerichte/kammergericht Address Elßholzstraße 30-33, 10781 Berlin, Germany Hours Closed today SaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday7:30AM–4PMTuesday7:30AM–4PMWednesday7:30AM–4PMThursday7:30AM–4PMFriday7:30AM–2PM Similar Heinrich‑von‑Kleist Park, Kleistpark, Reichskammergericht, Jewish Museum - Berlin, Landgericht Bremen | ||
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The Kammergericht (KG) is the Oberlandesgericht, i.e. the highest state court, for the City of Berlin, Germany. As an ordinary court according to the German Courts Constitution Act (Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz), it deals with criminal and civil cases, subordinate to the local Amtsgerichte and the Landgericht Berlin. Its name differs from other state courts for historic reasons; there are no other courts called Kammergericht in Germany.
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History
A Kammergericht was first mentioned in 1468, when it adjudicated in the chambers (German: Kammern) of the prince-electors of Brandenburg. According to the Privilegium de non appellando granted by the Holy Roman Emperor, the Brandenburg subjects were prohibited from appealing to the Imperial authority. Therefore, the Kammergericht acted as supreme court in the Imperial estate ruled by the Hohenzollern electors.
As the appellate court of Brandenburg-Prussia and the Kingdom of Prussia from 1701, it was since 1698 based in the central Cölln quarter of Berlin. In 1735, under the rule of King Frederick William I, it moved to the newly erected Baroque Collegienhaus in the Friedrichstadt district (in present-day Kreuzberg). It then housed the supreme courts and judges of the different territories ruled in personal union by the royal House of Hohenzollern, without formally merging the different juridical systems. By this concentration in one locality the later unification of the juridical systems was prepared. The Collegienhaus is today part of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
From the 18th century, the Kammergericht gained a reputation as independent authority in notable lawsuits such as Miller Arnold vs. Count of Schmettau (see Historic Mill of Sanssouci) or in the trial of Johann Heinrich Schulz. After the Greater Poland Uprising of 1846, numerous Polish insurgents, among them Ludwik Mierosławski and Karol Libelt, were tried at the Kammergericht, but amnestied by King Frederick William IV during the 1848 revolution.
Kleistpark building
After German unification and the establishment of the Oberlandesgerichte by the German Empire in 1877, the Kammergericht kept its name. In 1913, it moved to its present location in a newly erected Neo-Baroque building in the former Botanical Garden, laid out by Johann Sigismund Elsholtz in 1679, which had been relocated to the Dahlem demesne in 1899. The premises in the present-day Schöneberg district were renamed Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park on the occasion of Kleist's 100th death anniversary on 21 November 1911, and became colloquially known as Kleistpark.
In August 1944 the Kleistpark building was the site of the show trial conducted by the People's Court (Volksgerichtshof) under Judge Roland Freisler against the surviving conspirators of the 20 July plot. A few months later the court had to leave the building and cede it to the Allied Control Council. On 18 October 1945, the International Military Tribunal (IMT) of the Nuremberg trials held its constituent meeting here.
The building remained the official seat of the Council, though its meeting discontinued after the Soviet representatives left in protest in March 1948. On 3 September 1971, the Four Power Agreement on Berlin was signed here. The Kammergericht was based at the former Reichskriegsgericht in Charlottenburg during the Cold War era, until it moved back to its former location in 1997.
Extensively restored, the Kammergericht building today is also the seat of the constitutional court of Berlin (Verfassungsgerichtshof) and the state's Attorney General (Generalstaatsanwalt).