Life in the container village - In Unterschleißheim there are the first accommodations in the district for refugees from the Ukraine

Created: 08/17/2022, 05:30

By: Charlotte Borst

The accommodation offers accommodation units for a total of 118 people on two floors.

© District Office

The container village built by the district of Munich on Nördliche Ingolstädter Strasse in Unterschleißheim has been home to six Ukrainian refugees since the last days of July.

118 people can find temporary accommodation here.

Unterschleißheim/district

– The district office accommodates mainly Ukrainian refugees here in Lohhof.

Most of them already live in Unterschleißheim or the surrounding area and are threatened or affected by homelessness.

The city made the land available to the county.

The container facility, which consists of two components, is initially limited to two years.

"Actually, it should have been completed long ago," says Christine Spiegel, spokeswoman for the district office.

However, among other things, delivery difficulties on the container and steel market - also caused by the Russian war of aggression - delayed moving into the accommodation.

After Unterhaching, where a container village was completed in mid-July, this is the second container accommodation that is ready for occupancy.

The refugees are looked after by the Caritas services in the district of Munich, which hold regular consultation hours here.

The Unterschleißheim helper group is also there to help people.

District wants to provide 3000 places

There are currently 5,127 refugees from Ukraine living in the district, with these numbers fluctuating greatly due to relocations and departures.

The district office is pursuing the goal of providing 3,000 places in state accommodation and distributing them as fairly as possible and in relation to the population of the municipalities in the district.

"There are a total of nine container systems in nine different districts in planning, under construction or already implemented," says the district office.

These are spread across the county.

The locations are in large or medium-sized cities and communities.

In addition, there are further accommodation places in ten large accommodations, also distributed across the district, nine of which have been realized and one is still in the rental process.

The construction of new container locations is carried out in close cooperation with the respective municipality.

"Our goal is accommodation and integration that works locally, not overburdening individual communities," said the district administration at the most recent district council meeting at the request of the SPD parliamentary group.

Back to Unterschleißheim: As the district office informed in mid-August, of the 421 Ukrainians who currently live in Unterschleißheim, 264 are in private accommodation and 157 in state accommodation.

In addition to the six people who have just moved into the container village, there are 46 of them in six apartments and 105 in two large properties.

BRK helps with the job search

District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU) is very grateful to the citizens for the great openness and their commitment in taking in the refugees: "Only together can we succeed in offering temporary accommodation to the people who had to leave their homeland under such terrible circumstances but also to give everything a safe haven supported by humanity.”

The city of Unterschleissheim has set up an internal administrative working group "Ukraine" chaired by the mayor, which regularly deals with current topics in order to offer the refugees support and help in every respect.

A large number of clubs, organizations and voluntary helpers are also full of energy.

City offers telephone consultation hours

The most important information for refugees and helpers is provided on the city's website.

The city also offers a daily telephone consultation, supported by an interpreter, for refugees and helpers in Ukrainian, German and English.

Often it is about filling out documents or about schools and looking for a job.

It also needs to be clarified how the people who live in central accommodation get their mail.

Sometimes telephone translations are also needed or psychological support is sought.

Caritas provides free psychological advice from a psychologist based in Unterschleißheim.

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