 Decisions of Germany's 28 higher regional courts were appealed to the Reichsgericht in Leipzig; there was no strong reason for an extra appeals court intermediating between the Reichsgericht and the paltry 3 higher regional courts of the Reich's new province, the State of Austria ().For another thing, the Nazis were already planning to dissolve the State of Austria into a number of unconnected provinces () in the near future; any institution that expressly and specifically served the territory traditionally known as Austria would eventually have to be disbanded in any case.The court ceased operations in March 1939.