Sievekingplatz is a central square in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

, located in the quarter of St. Pauli in the

Hamburg-Mitte Hamburg-Mitte (Hamburg Central) is one of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, Germany, covering most of the city's urban center. The quarters of Hamburg-Altstadt and Neustadt cover much of the city's historic core. In 2020 the population was 301,231. ...

district within the ''Wallanlagen'', the remnants of the Hamburg Wallring.

History

The square was named in 1911 after

Ernst Friedrich Sieveking Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975- ...

, who was president of the

Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht The (Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, abbreviated HansOLG, officially without a suffix "Hamburg") is the Oberlandesgericht, Higher Regional Court (OLG) of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany, and thus part of the Hamburg ordinary ...

, the

Higher Regional Court An ''Oberlandesgericht'' (plural – ''Oberlandesgerichte''; OLG, en, Higher Regional Court, or in Berlin ''Kammergericht'': KG) is a higher court in Germany. There are 24 OLGs in Germany and they deal with civil and criminal matters. They a ...

of Hamburg from 1879 to 1909. The Higher Regional Court building, which was built from 1907 to 1912, is located at the square, along with the criminal justice building (1898-1912) and the criminal justice building (1879-1882) the buildings form the

Judicial Forum The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law ...

.Franklin Kopitzsch, Daniel Tilgner (eds.): ''Hamburg Lexikon'', 3rd ed., Hamburg 2005, p.437,

References

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