Amtsgericht

[1] These courts form the lowest level of the so-called 'ordinary jurisdiction' of the German judiciary (German Ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit), which is responsible for most criminal and civil judicial matters.

[2] The German Amtsgericht may be compared to the magistrates' courts in England and Wales, although it has much broader sentencing powers.

Its name derives from the Amt as a denomination for an administrative and court district in many of the territories of the Holy Roman Empire.

There are 640 Amtsgerichte in Germany,[3] whose jurisdictional area typically comprises a small number of towns or municipalities.

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