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The Higher Regional Court of Celle has existed since the eighteenth century. 

Its history goes back to the year seventeen hundred and eleven, when the town was still the residence of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg. At that time, the court was founded as the Ducal Court and had the task of settling legal disputes between the nobility.
When it was founded in the year seventeen hundred and seven, Weipart Ludwig von Fabrice was appointed as the first president of the new court. The electoral Hanoverian diplomat and statesman was personally commissioned by the then Director of the Celle Chancellery of Justice, Paul von Püchler.
From then on, the highest judicial body in the state had its seat in Celle - the High Court of Appeal. After the incorporation of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg into the Kingdom of Westphalia in September eighteen hundred and ten, the Higher Court of Appeal was transformed into the Celle Court of Appeal, chaired by Friedrich Karl von Strombeck. After the collapse of the Kingdom of Westphalia in eighteen thirteen, the Higher Court of Appeal was re-established.
Fifty-three years later, after the ally Austria lost the war, the court was transformed into the Celle Court of Appeal of the Prussian state.
In 1879, the court was given the status of a Higher Regional Court under the Imperial Justice Acts. The court retained this position during the Weimar Republic and after the National Socialist seizure of power in nineteen thirty-three.
Since 1857, the Celle court had been the highest instance of ordinary jurisdiction for the state of Lippe, which did not have its own higher regional court or court of appeal. A Lippe-Prussian state treaty of January four eighteen hundred and seventy-nine renewed this commitment and at the same time elevated the court in Detmold to the District Court of Detmold . The Prussian Higher Regional Court of Celle functioned as the Higher Regional Court for Lippe until nineteen forty-four. During the Second World War, the judicial district of the Higher Regional Court of Celle had already been reduced in size in favor of the Higher Regional Court districts of Oldenburg and Hamm . Nineteen hundred and ninety-eight. In 1998, the district of the Göttingen Regional Court was also transferred to the jurisdiction of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court. Nevertheless, Celle remained the largest of Lower Saxony's Higher Regional Court districts.
In October two thousand and eleven, the court's three hundredth anniversary was celebrated with a ceremony attended by Lower Saxony's Minister of Justice Bernd Busemann . Helga Oltrogge was the first woman to hold the office of President of the Higher Regional Court from nineteen hundred and eighty-nine to two thousand and six.