As of: January 31, 2024, 1:00 p.m
By: Franziska Seliger
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An asylum accommodation with 80 beds is to be built in Benediktbeuern on a meadow not far from the monastery.
The building committee has now given the green light for this.
The system will not be moved in before the middle of the year © Seliger
A container facility for around 80 people is to be built on Meichelbeckstrasse.
The building committee decided this.
Mayor Anton Ortlieb complains that the federal government does not take the concerns and needs of the municipalities seriously.
Benediktbeuern – Asylum accommodation for 80 people is to be built in Benediktbeuern.
At the most recent meeting of the building committee, its members unanimously approved a corresponding building application from the district.
As reported, the facility is to be built on Meichelbeckstrasse not far from the monastery and north of the river master's office on an outdoor meadow.
The construction of residential containers is planned, Mayor Anton Ortlieb explained at the meeting.
Four people are supposed to live together in a kind of apartment so that the residents have at least a little space to retreat.
The community was “promised” to have a security service for the area.
After the approval of the building committee, the building application must now be examined and approved by the district office.
Only then can the order be put out to tender.
Ortlieb assumes that the system will not be ready “before the middle of the year”.
When asked, the town hall boss said he didn't know which nationalities would move in.
The system will be there for five years
The municipality owns the area, but will lease it to the district “for a limited period of five years”.
When asked by Stefan Geiger who would be responsible for dismantling the facility after this time, Ortlieb said that dismantling the outdoor area was “mandatory”.
This obligation of the district will also be stipulated in the lease agreement that has yet to be signed.
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Given the fact that many citizens in Benediktbeuern are still struggling with the consequences of the hailstorm in August last year, the mayor was anything but enthusiastic about the construction of the asylum accommodation.
There are certainly fears in the village about this, said Ortlieb when asked by our newspaper.
In the town hall you have to prepare for more work, and in the kindergarten there is “not enough space now”.
So what if a lot of families come with children?
Ortlieb doesn't know the answer to that.
As mayor, he feels left alone by the government in Berlin on this issue.
When the mayors voice their concerns here, “no one listens.”
Mayor's official meeting on the lawsuit from Greiling
At the local council meeting, Ortlieb described the community’s approach as a “smart decision”.
This is because the municipality is more likely to remain in control of the situation by providing a piece of land.
If no space had been made available, a developer might have reported a piece of land or a building in the town to the district office.
“Then we as a municipality no longer have it in our hands.” Ortlieb also commented on the administrative court’s most recent ruling regarding the Greiling municipality’s lawsuit against the forced allocation of refugees: At a mayor’s office meeting, it was agreed within the district that the municipalities want to continue to fulfill their obligation to cooperate with the accommodation.
The only question is: “Where does it begin and where does it end?”
Ortlieb: Integration of so many people is difficult
In an interview with our newspaper, Ortlieb said that there was still a group of helpers in town with whom they were “in contact”.
However, its members could quickly reach their limits if a whole bus full of people arrived in town at once, as could well be the case.
Against this background, Ortlieb admitted that accepting asylum seekers was only a short-term reaction.
“We are a long way from integrating.”