Hereditary Grand Ducal Palace

The Hereditary Grand Ducal Palace (German: Erbgroßherzogliches Palais) in Karlsruhe on Kriegsstraße has been the seat of the Federal Court of Justice since 1950.

On the second floor of the building there is a marble memorial plaque from 1957, commemorating 34 judges and lawyers from the Leipzig Reichsgericht and Reichsanwaltschaft [de], who died in Soviet captivity in Germany after the end of Nazi rule in 1945 and 1946.

A plaquette was added in 2018 and an information sign in 2021, which references the unjust National Socialist system in which these lawyers participated, 23 of whom were members of the NSDAP.

As long as the office of the Public Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice was also housed on the Herrenstraße site, large parts of the garden had to be dismantled and used as parking spaces due to a lack of other alternatives.

Despite the relocation of the Attorney General's Office, the park has not yet been made accessible to the public due to the tightened security situation since 2001.