District clears halls in Gilching and Hechendorf
Created: 09/26/2022, 10:51 am
By: Peter Schiebel
In mid-March, around 70 volunteers from the fire brigade, BRK and THW set up the town hall gymnasium in Gilching as an initial and emergency room for war refugees from the Ukraine.
© Dagmar Rutt
District Administrator Stefan Frey currently no longer sees a need for emergency accommodation in gyms in the Starnberg district.
Gilching/Hechendorf
– The town hall gymnasium in Gilching and the gymnasium in Hechendorf will soon be completely available to sports clubs and schools again.
At the request of Starnberger Merkur, district administrator Stefan Frey confirmed that the district office would soon clear both halls.
In mid-March, the district authority first converted the Gilchinger Halle into an initial reception center for war refugees from the Ukraine, followed three weeks later by the Hechendorfer Halle.
Even though people from the Ukraine have never been accommodated there since then and operations in Gilching have long since ceased, the district office still maintains both facilities to this day so that it can react quickly if the housing situation deteriorates.
Frey no longer sees this need.
The district administrator: "The number of refugees is currently constant, and we have been able to acquire good accommodation." There are currently around 2,000 war refugees from Ukraine living in the district.
He therefore discussed how to proceed with the two mayors – Manfred Walter (Gilching) and Klaus Kögel (Seefeld).
As soon as suitable storage options have been found for the objects set up in the halls - beds, bedding, tables, chairs, partitions and the like - "we'll move out," emphasized Frey.
Some of the newly acquired things come to the disaster control camp of the district in Machtlfing, and more space is being sought.
In Hechendorf, the gym could possibly even be cleared by the end of the week with the support of the building yard of the municipality of Seefeld, the fire brigade and TSV Hechendorf, said the district administrator.
However, he also made it clear: "I cannot guarantee that a situation will not arise again where there is a shortage and we need gyms as emergency accommodation."
