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Braunschweig (dpa / lni) - The district of Goslar failed in court with its claim for damages worth millions against the Asklepios clinics.

The civil chamber had dismissed the lawsuit because it could not see any breach of contract, said a spokesman for the Braunschweig regional court on Friday.

The district of Goslar wanted to use the civil lawsuit to obtain a fine of 16 million euros from the company because it saw the obligation to further develop the clinic in Clausthal-Zellerfeld violated.

(File number 8 O 2427/19)

The dispute concerned a purchase agreement from 2003, with which three clinics in the Harz Mountains were privatized and sold at a price of 15 million euros.

The paper provides for a contractual penalty of up to one million euros per year in the event of a breach of contractual obligations.

A central question was what further development means in relation to Clausthal-Zellerfeld.

The judge had already said in her preliminary legal opinion in August that the term needs to be interpreted.

The contract only clarifies specifically that there should be no closure in principle.

Further development does not necessarily have to mean expanding.

From the court's point of view, there were no requirements for a contractual penalty, as the spokesman said.

According to him, this would also have required timely warnings.

In the opinion of the court, however, the district had been informed about developments at the Clausthal-Zellerfeld site.

An appeal can still be lodged against the judgment.

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