ADDRESS

OPENING HOURS

Every weekday

Monday untill friday

From 8u30 to 12u30

From 13u30 to 16u

COURTHOUSEOPGEËISTENLAAN 4019000 GHENT

ACCESSIBILITY

BY TRAIN

Via Ghent- DampoortTake bus 3 to Mariakerke- Post. Get off af the stop ‘Sint-Jacobs’. Here you take bus 52 to Boekhoute or bus 54 to Doornzele to the stop ‘Kolveniersgang’.

Via Sint-PietersstationTake tram 4 to Gentbrugge Moscou. Get off at the stop ‘Opgeneëistenlaan’ or take tram 1 to Wondelgem Industireweg and get off at the stop ‘Rabot’

Via AntwerpTake the turn E17 Destel-bergen, follow the R4 to Zelzate. Turn to Kenne-dylaan. Follow and take the second turn of the rotary intersection. Drive to Mui-depoort. Go right at the in-tersection and then straight ahead (Blaisantvest).

Via courtraiTake the turn E17 Zwijnaar-de to U.Z. Gent. Follow the B401. Insert to Ledeberg. Go over the bridge to kei-zervest. At Gent-dampoort take the 3th turn. Bend left and go two signal heads straight ahead to the court-house.

BY CAR

INFOBROCHURE

COURTHOUSE

BUILD IN GHENT

The new courthouse of Ghent is situated in the Rabot district in the Opgeeïsten Avenue. This complex, also called Great Courthouse Ghent, was opened for the first time in 2007 to end the lack of space and fragmentation of the legal services. Most of the outside of the building is covered with glass and is therefore popularly called the glass house. The main building consists of three to-wers each of them five stories high. There are two ponds in the courtyard witch is located at the minus one level.

Before the courthouse was built there was a gas compa-ny located on those grounds. Afterwards the train sta-tion Ghent-Rabot was built, but in the seventies it got shut down and removed. In the South- West you can still see the three towers that were built from 1972 un-till 1974. Together they contain 573 appartments. They intend to destroy those buildings and replace them with 400 social housings. On the other side of the park a youth house was constructed simultaneously with the new Courthhouse.

THE DEPARTMENTS

The Courthouse houses a variety of departments. You will find the:

Court of First Instance Labour court Peace courts Police Court Department Public Prosecutor’s Office Department Youth and Family of Public Prosecutor’s Office Department Police Court Family of Public Prosecutor’s Office. The Amendments to the Belgian Arbitration Law

The Police court is specialized in violations and traf-fic issues. The public prosecutor’ Office is assisted by Judicial Assistant Judicial Assistant in criminal matters Judicial Assistant victim treats

A Total number of 600 people are employed in the courthouse.

THE ARCHITECTS

In 1998 an international architecture contest was set up. In the jury there were representatives of the city of Ghent, The ministry of Flemish Commu-nity, Federal Public Service of Justice, The Amend-ments of Architects, The Director of buildings, the Rabot Neighbourhood en external achitects.

The temporaly association Beel-Achtergael Archi-tects F.V. – Technum N.V. became top winner.Stéphane Bell is a representative of a simplicity movement that came to take place in the 20’s in Flanders. He started his own Agency but also works closely together with Lieven Achtergael.. Together they are leading the agency Beel-Ach-tergael. They allready realized the Tack Tower in Courtrai (1994 – 1999), the Central museum in Utrecht (1994 – 1999), The Youth House Rabot (2002-2007) and Villa V (2006-2009). At the mo-ment the company is working on the military hos-pital in Ostend and Antwerp and is conducting the renovation of the cultural center ‘De Warande’ in Turnhout.

In 2005 a summary of their work was published in the famous Spanish Magazine ‘ El Croquis’

THE COURTHOUSE

THE COURTHOUSE OPGEËISTENLAAN 401 9000 GHENT T 09 234 53 50 www.GGGent.be