The next challenge is looming at the district office: For a long time there was almost silence, but next week a bus with up to 50 refugees is supposed to come again.
It won't be the last.
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– Around 2,300 refugees are currently living in the Weilheim-Schongau district.
Part comes from Ukraine, part from other countries.
But the stream of refugees does not stop.
From now on, refugees will be distributed to the districts again.
To be on the safe side, the district office is preparing, even if it is not yet clear how the situation will develop in the coming weeks and months.
"We can currently confirm that up to 50 refugees will arrive in the district next week.
Another bus with up to 50 people has been announced for the week after next," says Erika Breu from the press office of the district office.
It is simply not yet possible to say what will happen after that: “The government will assign the refugees to the individual districts.” Appropriate accommodation options can be organized for the 100 refugees announced so far.
Two new accommodations are to offer space for 400 to 500 refugees
Nevertheless, no one knows exactly how the situation will develop in the coming weeks and months.
That is why the district is considering where more asylum seekers and refugees from Ukraine can be accommodated.
"There are currently two projects being pushed forward in the district, in which a total of 400 to 500 additional accommodation places for refugees could be created," says district treasurer Norbert Merk on this topic.
He didn't want to go into detail.
What is certain is that larger accommodation with 144 places is to be built in Peiting.
Furthermore, it is planned that the current container site on Leprosenweg in Weilheim will be demolished and permanent asylum accommodation built of wood will be built in the same place.
The city was not enthusiastic about this project at first and now rumors are swirling that the asylum accommodation is to be built elsewhere.
The southern building of the former vocational school is currently being occupied
The south building of the former vocational school in Weilheim, which was originally supposed to be demolished, is now already being used as asylum accommodation - the first residents have already moved in, as Merk reported yesterday.
Otherwise, the situation is complicated: "Everything that has been created in refugee accommodation since 2015 is now occupied," says Merk.
Even if you had space for container settlements: "The market for residential containers has been swept clean."
While other districts are already considering asking so-called “false occupiers”, i.e. recognized refugees who should no longer be allowed to live in asylum accommodation, to move out, the district rejected this step just a few weeks ago.
Knowing full well that the problem would only be shifted and the "mistakers" as homeless people would then end up entirely under the responsibility of the municipalities.
Prepared for use of the gyms, but only the "very last option"
In the end, the very last option would be to use individual gyms temporarily as asylum accommodation.
A few months ago, as a precautionary measure, the district had already submitted appropriate building applications to the affected communities (we reported).
In this case, however, only the gyms owned by the district would be affected.
These include the vocational school gyms in Weilheim and Schongau.