COURTS IN GERMANY

In Germany, there exist "ordinary courts" (for civil, commercial, criminal and family matters, and some others), and courts of specialized jurisdiction on administrative claims, on social security insurance claims, on labour disputes and on tax disputes, to name the most important. The highest courts are Federal Courts, whereas the other courts are in the competency of the Laender. 

For the ordinary courts, a unified database exists that allows to search for the local jurisdiction based on the ZIP-Code ("PLZ") of the place on which the jurisdiction is based (such as residence of the defendant, or place of contract or accident, depending on the matter). For the other courts and more infomation, no unified database is available yet, so one has to follow the other links provided below. One of the places to access the database of ordinary courts is here: http://www.prozessgerichte.de/.

FEDERAL COURTS
Bundesverfassungsgericht	The Federal Constitutional Court
Bundesministerium der Justiz	Federal Courts in the Competence of the Federal Ministry of Justice
Bundessozialgericht	Federal Social Security Court
Bundesarbeitsgericht	Federal Labour Court
THE LAENDER COURTS
Baden-Wuerttemberg
Bayern	without labour courts
Berlin
Brandenburg
Brandenburg Suche	jurisdictional seach engine
Bremen	without labour courts
Hamburg
Hessen
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Niedersachsen
Nordrhein-Westfalen	without labour courts
Rheinland-Pfalz
Saarland	without labour courts
Sachsen
Sachsen-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thueringen
LABOUR COURTS
Bayern	Landesarbeitsgericht Muenchen and lower labour courts of that district
Bayern	Landesarbeitsgericht Nuremberg and lower labour courts of that district
Bremen	Landesarbeitsgericht
Bremen	Arbeitsgericht
Nordrhein-Westfalen	Landesarbeitsgericht Duesseldorf and lower labour courts of that district
Nordrhein-Westfalen	Landesarbeitsgericht Hamm and lower labour courts of that district
Nordrhein-Westfalen	Landesarbeitsgericht Koeln and lower labour courts of that district
Saarland	and lower labour courts of that district
TAX COURTS
Bundesfinanzhof	Tax court address list