Where do asylum seekers live: A district-wide overview

Created: 06/11/2022, 08:55

By: Jannis Gogolin

The residential containers are hidden in the former warehouse of the Filigran company.

Since May 2016, a maximum of 150 refugees have found a roof over their heads there after their arrival in the district.

© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

Residential containers, gymnasiums, old stock - the district office and the district government were creative in their search for refugee accommodation.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen – More and more refugees are arriving in the district – according to Josef Niedermaier, 50 new asylum seekers per week.

Similarities to the refugee waves of 2015 and the following years are difficult to deny, said the district administrator recently in a town hall meeting.

In the district committee he said: "The situation is worse than in 2015." The challenges are the same.

A major difficulty is accommodation.

The district and the government of Upper Bavaria have shared this task for seven years.

Refugee shelters in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen: Two out of five are still left

Between 2014 and 2016, the district office built five large accommodations with a total of 780 places on a decentralized basis - i.e. distributed across the district, according to press spokeswoman Sabine Schmid.

Two of them still exist today.

Dissolved due to litigation, new use or terminated lease

From the beginning of 2016 to mid-2019, up to 240 people found a temporary roof over their heads in the mobile homes in Reichersbeuern, which have since been dissolved and sold.

From the beginning of 2015, the Jodquellenhof in Bad Tölz offered 150 places.

The location was closed in May 2017 "because of a legal dispute between the owner and the city of Bad Tölz".

The accommodation on Geretsrieder Robert-Schumann-Weg with 76 places closed at the end of 2018 and, according to Schmid, is now being used "as an extension of the special needs school".

In the former Leonardis Clinic in Bad Heilbrunn, the municipality terminated the lease in April 2019 and gave up almost 90 beds.

The building has since been demolished and the owner uses the site for his own purposes.

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The gym in the Farchet district of Wolfratshausen is still closed

Even today, 150 asylum seekers find space under the roof of the Geretsried filigree hall.

It has been available for this purpose since mid-2016.

A container facility with 75 spaces was built in Lenggries back in 2014.

Since then, it has been "in constant use," reports Schmid.

These large accommodations are supplemented by temporary solutions, such as gymnasiums.

The district uses the multi-purpose hall in the Wolfratshausen district of Farchet.

"However, this is not intended for permanent use, but is still the result of managing the accommodation of Ukrainian war refugees," emphasizes the press spokeswoman for the district office.

In Geretsried and Bad Tölz, asylum seekers also occupied a gym.

Both have now been cleared and once again offer space for club sports.

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The government of Upper Bavaria operates five accommodations in the district

The government of Upper Bavaria has been operating five community accommodations in the district since 2016 and 2017, reports their press spokesman Wolfgang Rupp.

These are used for "the subsequent accommodation of asylum seekers" after refugees have passed through the initial reception in AnkER centers (see explanation below) of the administrative district of Upper Bavaria in Manching near Ingolstadt.

The government has two communal accommodations each in Bad Tölz (asylum homes on the Flinthöhe and at the Tölzer school center, Peter-Freisl-Straße) and in Wolfratshausen (old rectory and former surveying office) and one in Geretsried (school center, Adalbert-Stifter-/Jahnstraße) .

Since January 2022, the latter has been “used as a temporary home, especially for local Afghan workers,” explains Rupp.

Quarantine accommodation in Wackersberg: Corona is still an issue

Corona is just as much an issue in the communal accommodation as it is outside.

That is why the government took over a facility from the district in Wackersberg in 2020 and converted it into “quarantine accommodation”.

According to spokesman Rupp, corona-positive refugees can "cure separately for a limited period of time for isolation or quarantine" without infecting other people.

Half of all refugees housed in private apartments

Not to be forgotten are the refugees who do not live in any of these shelters.

According to District Administrator Niedermaier, “around half of all asylum seekers in the district – 500 people in number – live in private apartments.”

By the way: everything from the region is also available in our regular Wolfratshausen-Geretsried newsletter.

Info:

The government of Upper Bavaria distinguishes between three categories for its institutions:

AnkER facilities (arrival, decision-making and return facilities)

: Asylum seekers are accommodated there immediately after their arrival and then distributed to the districts.

Individuals for a maximum of 18 months, families for a maximum of six months.

Shared accommodation

: They are operated by the government of Upper Bavaria and the district offices.

This is where asylum seekers end up who have completed the admission procedure in AnkER facilities and the necessary administrative procedures.

Transitional hostels

: These serve "primarily to accommodate so-called quota refugees" - for example Afghan local workers.

Condition: The persons concerned – in contrast to asylum seekers – “already have a right of residence when they enter Germany”.