As of: February 21, 2024, 9:02 a.m
By: Andrea Gräpel
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The deserted rear area at Herrschinger Bahnhof is a popular meeting place for groups of young people in the evenings.
The youth representatives have the place in focus.
© Dagmar Rutt
Has drug abuse and trafficking increased in Herrsching?
It seems that way to many people from Herrsching, but Herrsching's police chief Winfried Naßl denied this in the local council on Monday.
The police and community youth workers reported on their work there.
Herrsching
– BGH local councilor Dr.
Rainer Guggenberger is one of those people from Herrsching who have the feeling that the tone among young people is becoming rougher and that meetings in well-known places such as the train station, skate park or spa park are becoming more aggressive.
Concern that drug use is increasing is also making the rounds.
The municipality therefore invited the Herrsching police youth officer, Patrick Ortmann, and police chief Winfried Naßl as well as the municipal youth carers to the municipal council meeting on Monday so that they could report on their work.
The “signal box”
Christian Kreilkamp runs the “Stellwerk” youth house on Baderstrasse in Herrsching.
A total of four part-time positions are filled in youth care.
He was pleased that life had returned to the youth center after the pandemic and that the offerings could be expanded.
The proportion of girls has grown.
“That is very remarkable,” he said.
Compared to before, the approximately 100 visitors per month are half female and half male.
But “very young”, namely between 12 and 15 years old.
Support has recently been provided by the “Women Helping Women” association, which provides a colleague for underage women.
“She’s always there at our girls’ days.”
The need for advice after the pandemic has increased.
Unlike before, young people would turn to their carers more quickly and trustingly.
Julia Schmidbauer, who heads the social affairs department at the town hall, also spoke of an “extreme need” for individual advice on topics such as love and relationships, domestic violence, school, delinquency and intoxicants.
“Young people sometimes deal with it very naively,” she said.
Educational work is important.
That's why her team is in close contact with Condrops in order to be better informed about new drugs.
The police
The local council was amazed at what kind of drugs there are when the Herrsching police youth officer gave examples: bath salts, for example, and other psychoactive substances.
“But we don’t have the impression that this is getting out of hand,” said Ortmann.
“There is not a huge increase in the inspection area,” assured Police Chief Naßl.
In 2023 there were 35 drug-related cases.
“But even if something is smelled and reported, it is noted.” Only once or twice was there an indication of harder drugs.
The majority of crimes were committed by people under the influence of alcohol.
Naßl and Ortmann expressly praised their collaboration with the community's street worker.
The street worker
Jan Pleines has been part of the community youth care team as a street worker for three years and knows his clientele and the hotspots such as the train station, the spa park, the skate park or - in bad weather - the covered seating at the community library.
He divides the young people into two groups.
These are those between twelve and 14 years old and those aged 18 and over.
Some are accessible, others less so.
“They are all over Herrsching,” said Pleines.
“Even in the cemetery,” noted CSU councilor Hannelore Doch, who has observed this often.
Pleines knows about it, but has not yet been able to meet any groups there.
He therefore asked for information to be sent to him, including at 8 p.m. in the evening.
The trust between him and the young people is great.
He has accompanied some individuals since he started working in Herrsching.
For example, a young man he met when he was 15.
The teenager had problems at home, was thrown out and sent to an emergency shelter in Munich.
There he started dealing and stealing.
Last year, Pleines received a call from his mother saying that the teenager - now 18 - was in prison.
“I feel a responsibility to go there,” Pleines said.
That's why he keeps in touch and feels like he can give the young man a perspective together with his mother.
Breitbrunn
Youth work in the Breitbrunn district gained momentum last year (we reported).
Two new youth council members were recruited and presented themselves to the local council on Monday: Lea Harsch and Felix Störig.
Yesterday, youth carers, Pastor Simon Rapp, as well as church carers and local councilor Christoph Welsch met with the Breitbrunner young people to talk about a possible place to stay in the cube at the Holy Spirit Church.
The tiny house was co-financed by the community at the time, and the church was open to young people using the space.
Alternatively, a room below the sacristy could be used as a youth room.