Visiting the Neubiberg container village
Created: 12/23/2022, 5:30 am
By: Harald Hettich
Not pretty, but useful: the containers are close together in the landscape park near Neubiberg.
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Citizens were able to take a tour of the container village for refugees from the Ukraine in Neubiberg.
Neubiberg
– There was great interest in the public presentation of the new container accommodation for refugees on the former runway in Neubiberg.
The rooms are still empty.
The first two Ukrainian families are not expected in the new facility until next Tuesday.
"These are people who can no longer stay in their private accommodation," said District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU).
And they are the first of up to 432 refugees who the district on Neubiberg terrain offers a roof over their heads in twelve two-storey blocks for the initially planned period of two years (see also box).
Safe contact point for families and mothers with children
"Especially in January, the facility should then be occupied quickly, step by step," said Julia Peters-Klopp from the housing department of the district office.
The timing is determined by the emergency.
Since the start of the Russian war of aggression, more than 5,000 people from the Ukraine have arrived in the district of Munich alone, and over 4,400 are currently staying here.
Ascending trend.
Refugees are supported here: Josef Steinlehner from the Asylum Helpers' Circle shows the "help container".
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Despite the material bottlenecks, the plant was completed this year.
The district finances the project, and the Free State subsequently provides the funds, according to Göbel.
Above all, the facility at the landscape park should be a safe contact point for families and mothers with children and sometimes also with grandparents.
Functional but spacious
Each of the twelve containers offers six self-contained living units with bedrooms and social rooms and one washing machine unit each.
The rooms are suitably sober, but relatively spacious and equipped with useful inventory.
In addition to the bunk beds, each resident has a cupboard, kitchen inventory and refrigerators in the living areas.
Get an idea of the accommodation: the Neubiberg couple Helgard and Franz Egelseher.
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A certain sigh of relief could also be felt from the District Administrator during the tour.
“This facility was realized thanks to many volunteers, the intensive support of the Neubiberg municipality and the currently around forty-strong team in the accommodation department, who literally work around the clock.
A big thank you goes to all those involved and to an understanding population,” said Göbel.
Child care and medical care have yet to be clarified
Even if the residential accommodation in modular construction is now in place, the work is not over for those responsible.
According to Neubiberg's Mayor Thomas Pardeller, a team in the town hall is currently working on finding solutions to open questions.
For example, the
issue of traffic and parking at
the cemetery right next to the container facility and at the Bundeswehr University has to be clarified, as well as childcare for the newcomers.
Josef Steinlehner from the Asylum Helpers' Group in Neubiberg is happy that at least the containers are finally up.
However, the question of medical care is still unresolved.
He hopes that citizens of Neubiberg who have taken in Ukrainians will now also be relieved - by allowing people from there to switch to the new facility.
"We haven't had any commitments yet," he says.
According to information from the district office, more than 3,000 refugees are still living privately with families in the district.
Helgard and Franz Egelseher got an idea of the accommodation during the tour.
"It's important that people have a decent roof over their heads, especially in winter," says
the couple from Neubiberg.
Helping the refugees goes without saying: “We owe that to the people.
We would also build on it the other way around.”
It is not yet clear how long the village will remain.
“We are currently assuming two years,” says Pardeller.
Sabine Kohler from the district office considers longer operation to be desirable - if only because of the high investment costs and increasing demand.
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A security service patrols around the clock
The Asylum Helpers' Group in Neubiberg has its own container for administrative work, language training and advice on the property.
A security service patrols around the clock.
Residents must show access authorization at the guarded entrance.
"This is not surveillance, but to protect residents from unauthorized access," explains Peters-Klopp.
Nobody is locked up here.
According to the district, the installed video cameras were only intended for the construction phase and are to be dismantled.
"Now only the residents are missing, a very important and good thing," said Margaretha Rappl.
The Neubibergerin was one of the first visitors to see the facility and supports the project.
