The district office wants to turn two old school gymnasiums, here one of them, into emergency accommodation for asylum seekers. © Wolfgang Schörner
The two gymnasiums of the Bürgermeister-Prandl-Schule become emergency accommodation for asylum seekers. This was announced by the district office. According to this, refugees are to be accommodated there only for a short time until they move to permanent accommodation in the district. The halls would be occupied by a maximum of 50 people, it said.
Penzberg – The city of Penzberg has provided the district with the two small gymnasiums of the Bürgermeister-Prandl-Schule as emergency accommodation. In the gymnasiums built in 1961, which were supposed to be demolished long ago and are smaller than normal thirds of the hall, school sports have not been practiced for some time. They are no longer suitable for this.
District office wants to prepare the small gyms for refugees
The district office now wants to prepare them for refugees. This is expected to happen later this month. The smaller hall, which briefly served as a vaccination center, is to become a sleeping place with beds and lockers, the larger one a lounge area. The district office also wants to set up containers or trailers for infrastructure such as the kitchen and washing machine. Access to the halls should only be open from Bergstraße, not from the school side.
"Definitely not more than 50 people"
The plans were presented on Tuesday evening in the Penzberg building committee. Bernhard Pössinger from the asylum contact point at the district office explained that in such emergency shelters "under no circumstances should there be more than 50 people" at the same time. In the two gymnasiums in Penzberg, refugees would only stay until they can move into permanent accommodation that is rented or built in the district. Similar emergency shelters already exist in Weilheim, Wielenbach and Steingaden. The aim is for refugees to leave the hall after 14 days. Because of the short time, it would not make sense to register children in school.
"Relapse level in order to be able to react quickly"
Pössinger also explained that it is not even certain whether the two small gyms in Penzberg are needed at all. They served "as a fallback level in order to be able to react quickly". He also addressed concerns that parents and teachers have about the proximity to elementary and middle school. It would be a security service on the ground, whose staffing levels could be adjusted if necessary, he said.
Every 14 days a bus with 50 people in the district
The district is currently putting pressure on all municipalities to obtain housing for refugees. Every 14 days, a bus arrives with 50 people who have to be accommodated by the district, Pössinger reported. In Sindelsdorf, for example, as reported, the municipality will make the old slaughterhouse available. Longer- and medium-term accommodation is being built or has been built in Peiting, Steingaden, Peißenberg and Weilheim. The district also rents private apartments.
The city of Penzberg now provided the district with the two small gymnasiums that were no longer used for sports. Mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU) said that this was "anything but optimal". According to him, however, the district would also have had the option of a forced assignment, for example to the district sports hall on Birkenstraße. Jack Eberl (FLP) asked in the meeting whether it can be ruled out "99 percent" that another gym will be occupied. Helmut Hartl from the asylum department in the district office replied that they were "well on their way" in acquiring permanent accommodation. According to him, however, this cannot be completely ruled out.
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For the twelve families of the Afghan local forces and the Syrian contingent refugees, a solution is in the offing, according to which they can stay in Penzberg and the surrounding area, possibly also in the accommodation on Nonnenwaldstraße, where they have been living for a year and a half. This emerges from statements made by Helmut Hartl, head of the department for asylum and integration at the district office, on Tuesday in the Penzberg building committee in response to a question from Martin Janner (PM). He announced that there will also be a meeting with the circle of helpers on Monday. Previously, there had been talks with the city.
According to Hartl, the aim is to keep those people "who have a social bond here in Penzberg and the surrounding area". They will "probably be provided with leases in our accommodations". Those who have no social ties, however, would have to go elsewhere.
As reported, the circle of helpers went public at the end of April. It was said that the ten Afghan and two Syrian families (65 people, including 42 children and adolescents) would be transferred to another transitional home in Upper Bavaria if they could not find housing by the end of June. The children go to school or kindergarten here. Most adults attend an integration course, and many are about to graduate. Two men who worked as nurses in Afghanistan for the German Society for International Cooperation and for Cap Anamur want to start an internship at the Penzberg hospital.
Actually, the government of Upper Bavaria with its transitional dormitories is responsible for local families and quota refugees. The problem had arisen because the district office wants to have the building that she rented to the government back and turn it into decentralized accommodation. That's why it was in the room that the government accommodates the people in another transitional home in Upper Bavaria, said Bernhard Pössinger from the contact point for asylum and integration at the district office. "We have now been looking for solutions and will also find solutions."
