District Court in Łódź, courthouse in Śródmieście, Łódź, Poland
The District Court in Łódź stands at plac Dąbrowskiego 5, its façade divided into three parts. The central section holds the main entrance and main courtroom, marked by a risalit and an attic with a relief of the Scales of Justice held by pilasters with palm capitals. The smooth side sections carry attics with lictors' fasces emblems, and the Narutowicza Street elevation forms three parts linked by arcades.
After Poland regained independence, the courts moved from Piotrków Trybunalski to Łódź, the new voivodeship capital; the first district court sat at ul. Żeromskiego 115. In the 1920s the district architect Józef Kaban designed a complex for the court, mortgage office and town courts, scaled down in 1927 for economy. Only the court building with flats for the president, prosecutor and steward was built, completed in 1930. Closed during World War II, it later served as a voivodeship court and again as a district court; a second building with 22 courtrooms opened next door on 19 November 2010.
The building's facade carries the emblems of the lictor's fasces on the side attics and a relief of the Court of Themis above the main entrance, held up by pilasters with palm capitals. These classical motifs were chosen for a 1930 courthouse built in interwar modernism.
The courthouse stands at plac Dąbrowskiego 5, with its main entrance in the central section of the façade facing the square. A second court building opened on the neighbouring plot on 19 November 2010, holding 22 courtrooms for the District and Appellate Courts. The Narutowicza Street side is divided into three parts linked by arcades.
The building's attic relief shows Themis, the goddess of justice, held up by pilasters with palm capitals, while the side wings carry emblems of lictor fasces. The architect Józef Kaban also designed the interior. A second courthouse with 22 courtrooms opened on the neighbouring plot on 19 November 2010.
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