Conciliatory struggle for container location
Created: 11/30/2022, 07:02
By: Andrea Graepel
The container accommodation on Goethestraße in Herrsching has been there since 2015. It was supposed to be removed again in 2020, since then the location has been extended again and again.
Better than any gym we have to provide.
Claudia von Hirschfeld (BGH) campaigned for an extension of the container location © Andrea Jaksch
The issue of extending the lease of the container accommodation on Goethestraße in Herrsching does not seem to be stuck in a dead end.
On Monday, the municipal council declared itself open to a contract extension against four votes from the CSU.
Herrsching
– Herrsching's asylum helpers' group had already applied in October to hold on to the Goethestrasse refugee accommodation until a new hospital was built in the immediate vicinity.
This will probably not be the case before 2025.
There was a lack of understanding when the application from the circle of helpers was rejected by Mayor Christian Schiller (we reported).
Citizens' community and Greens are now campaigning for the application to be dealt with in the municipal council.
On Monday evening it was on the agenda and was discussed in a remarkably forgiving manner in front of a large audience, after there had not only been a closed conference in the meantime, but also discussions with Schiller.
The mayor once again referred to a promise made to residents of Goethestrasse that the system should have been dismantled by 2020, as well as to building law constraints.
Nevertheless, he was now open to holding the location for another year until the end of 2024.
The refugee accommodation on Goethestraße has been there since 2015. The municipality of Herrsching was the first in the district to provide land for a container site.
There was a special permit for this, because the area is in the planned outdoor area.
This exemption was extended several times, as was the lease, because the facility belongs to the district, which in turn rents the residential units to the government of Upper Bavaria.
Most recently, an extension of the lease until the end of 2023 was approved, and in 2024 the temporary building permit for the outside area also ends.
Christiane Gruber (BGH) referred to a new wave of refugees due to the war in Ukraine.
When the decision was made to extend the site to no later than the end of 2023, "we didn't have that on our radar," she said.
Nor was the construction of a hospital on Herrschinger Moos an issue.
"Construction will probably not start before 2025," she said, appealing to her council colleagues to send a signal.
"Closing an existing accommodation now when others are desperately looking for accommodation would be the wrong signal."
Her parliamentary colleague Claudia von Hirschfeld even found it negligent not to take this opportunity: "The containers are better than any gym that we have to provide." It is best to find a new location for the containers, said Wolfgang Schneider (SPD), who ultimately agreed to an extension by one year, even if Hannelore Doch (CSU), as integration officer, initially expressed doubts.
Living space that is not there by the end of 2023 will not be available in 2024 either.
"We need to be clear about that," she said.
It should at least be made clear to the refugees who are currently living on Goethestrasse that there will be no future there after 2024, “otherwise they will hope again”.
But I would also like to see an end to post-occupation, which would be difficult to justify given the large number of new refugees,
Schiller threw in another argument for an early end to the container site, because a year ago it was said that the situation there was no longer reasonable.
"The containers don't get better the longer they stand there.
It can't be permanent," he said.
Nor should it.
But should the district ask for an extension of the lease until the start of construction of the hospital, Herrsching is willing to do so - against the votes of Roland and Florian Lübeck as well as Thomas Bader and Ludwig Darchinger (all CSU).