Refugee accommodation will soon be opening in Peißenberg - in one of the former “Steigerhäuser” on Schachtstrasse. At a residents' meeting, to which the district office had invited, there was criticism, but also appeals to welcome the asylum seekers with open arms.
The district office is pursuing a strategy of decentralized accommodation with mixed occupancy. Large accommodation and the use of public facilities such as gyms should be avoided, says Bernhard Pössinger, an employee in the “Integration and Asylum” department. The six completed residential units will be available to move into little by little from the beginning or middle of May - depending on the status of the renovation. Theoretically, the maximum occupancy would be 50 people, but the number will be “significantly lower”: “38 to 40 people will move in,” says P Össinger. The mood among the 30 or so residents present was mixed. One resident called for people to vote for the party “that is really there for Germany’ in the European elections.