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In the face of massive headwinds, District Administrator Olaf von Löwis in Warngau defends compliance with laws and the construction of the planned refugee accommodation on the Vivo site.
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Angry citizens, investigations and 500 refugees: The construction of accommodation for refugees threatens to tear the small community of Warngau apart.
The Miesbach district administrator was chased from a meeting under police protection.
Warngau – Nobody is happy about the planned refugee home in Warngau.
Not the district administrator, not the mayor, not even the open-minded village doctor - and certainly not the Gschwendtner farming family.
She lives outside Warngau (Miesbach district) in the small hamlet of Draxlham, one kilometer away from the planned accommodation.
The farmers tried vehemently to prevent it: conversations, posters, a petition.
But the container village for 500 people is coming.
“I won’t forgive them for that,” says Monika Gschwendtner.
Asylum dispute in Warngau: District office looked for a solution for gymnasium accommodation
To understand what is happening in the community of 4,000, you have to look back.
The district has been looking for a solution for the three gymnasiums in Miesbach and Tegernsee for a year and a half: around 600 refugees are accommodated there, over 80 percent are men.
And 50 people come every week.
According to a spokeswoman for the district office, there are no fundamental problems with refugees in either Miesbach or Tegernsee.
“Of course, when hundreds of people, regardless of their nationality, live together in a small space, there is always friction, but this is more related to the cramped living together in the hall.”
“We didn’t know what to do anymore.
I have sent countless letters to the district government, to the Interior Minister and to Berlin: We need a break,” says District Administrator Olaf von Löwis (CSU).
There are no accommodations.
The district also does not have any large properties such as empty barracks.
Discussions were held with mayors and offers from private individuals were examined, but in most cases the properties were unsuitable.
The district administrator says that people from the gyms cannot be accommodated in small units.
There is a lack of space for decentralized accommodation.
The gymnasiums are divided into small compartments with bunk beds.
There are no walls, just visual separations.
Löwis finds this inhumane: “People have been cooped up here for two years.
And school and club sports can no longer take place there.
The clubs have been standing on the mat for a year and are rightly demanding that the gyms be opened.”
New accommodation planned next to recycling warehouse: “Maybe we should have gotten people on board earlier”
To solve the problem, a task force examined all possible locations in October.
One area caught our eye: the meadow next to the municipal waste disposal company Vivo in Warngau - which belongs to the district.
Von Löwis says they thought about it for a long time.
The location is not ideal because Warngau is far away.
The next largest town is Holzkirchen, around two kilometers away.
“But we have no other choice.
It is the only option available.”
A fenced-in facility with four container buildings for up to 126 people each is planned.
There is also a building with a kindergarten, kitchen and washing machines, a house for social workers and a small supermarket.
The district calls it a “village within a village”.
The people will live here for two years and then move to decentralized accommodation.
At the beginning of December, the plans leaked from the district council environment.
Mayor Klaus Thurnhuber (Free Voters' Association) knew about this earlier, but did not make it public because, as he says, there were no clear commitments at the time.
“Perhaps we should have gotten people on board earlier.” In mid-January, Thurnhuber and the local council voted against the accommodation.
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Monika Gschwendtner found out about the plans at the Christmas market.
Completely dismayed, she called “Klaus,” her mayor.
He told her that his hands were tied.
“The bad thing is that we were not informed in advance.
We will become the reception center for the entire district,” she says.
“The location is inhumane, right next to the commercial area and the waste disposal facility.
The noise starts there at six in the morning.
And it stinks from organic recycling.” She speaks openly about her fears.
The refugees “have nothing to do all day,” she says.
“My dirndl often travels here on horseback.
I already told her: You’re not here anymore!”
Also because of AfD infiltration: District administrator has to leave the meeting under police protection
Die Gschwendtners haben mit anderen eine Onlinepetition gestartet, rund 3800 Unterschriften gesammelt, auch aus Rosenheim und München. Und sie haben umstrittene Plakate aufgehängt, auf denen ein überfülltes Flüchtlingsboot das Ortsschild von Warngau durchbricht. Dass das die Stimmung aufheizt, glauben sie nicht. „Seit zehn Jahren kriegen die ihre Politik nicht in den Griff“, schimpft Klaus Gschwendtner. Die, das ist die große Politik in München, Berlin und Brüssel. Aber auch das Vertrauen in die Lokalpolitiker haben sie verloren. Sie gehen davon aus, dass die Unterkunft langfristig bleibt. „Ich habe denen immer meine Stimme gegeben. Aber die wähle ich nicht mehr“, sagt die Bäuerin.
Die Ängste hätten eigentlich bei der Bürgerversammlung Anfang Februar ausgeräumt werden sollen. Doch die Erklärungsversuche des Landrats verpufften, vor dem Wirtshaus trällerten rund 500 Gegner in vorher verteilte Pfeifen und die AfD um den Rosenheimer Landtagsabgeordneten Andreas Winhart unterwanderte die Diskussion mit perfiden Beiträgen. Am Ende lief die Versammlung völlig aus dem Ruder, wie jetzt Nachfragen bei Polizei und Landratsamt ergaben. Landrat von Löwis musste unter Polizeischutz aus dem Wirtshaus gebracht werden – durch den Hinterausgang der Toilette. „Im Hinterhof habe ich meinen Fahrer angerufen, aber der konnte wegen der Demonstranten nicht durch. Also bin ich ins Polizeiauto gestiegen. Die Leute haben das gemerkt und sind auf uns zugestürmt, sogar Traktoren sind auf uns zugerollt“, erzählt er. Die Tür des Streifenwagens wurde zugeknallt, dann sei man „losgebraust“. Inzwischen laufen zwei Ermittlungsverfahren wegen Nötigung, weil das Polizeiauto „eingekeilt“ wurde. Einer der beschuldigten Traktorfahrer kommt nach Angaben der Polizei aus Warngau, der andere aus der Region.
Bürgermeister Thurnhuber ist noch immer erschüttert. „Wo kommt dieser Hass her?“, fragt er sich. Im Umfeld von Flüchtlingsunterkünften gebe es keine hohe Kriminalität, sagt er. Warngau hatte schon einmal ein Containerdorf für 50 Flüchtlinge, mitten im Ortskern. „Da hat es sieben Jahre keine einzige Straftat gegeben.“ 2016, vor dem Bau des Heims, sei die Bürgerversammlung problemlos verlaufen, erinnert sich Thurnhuber. „Auf einmal ist alles ganz anders. Mein Gefühl ist, dass gerade eine große Unzufriedenheit herrscht.“
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At the moment, citizens are also forming who do not want to let public opinion in the village stand like this.
One is country doctor Winfried Dresel.
He took the microphone at the heated meeting and called for more humanity.
There is no optimal solution, says the doctor.
“But the refugee home in Warngau is the best option at the moment.” Dresel looks after people in the gyms once a week.
“It's unbearable there.” He speaks of psychological problems and some residents have suicidal thoughts.
“Many people come to me asking to be moved.” Anything, says Dresel, is better than the gym.
The refugee home will come.
“If the commitments from the ministry are there, we won’t wait a day,” says District Administrator von Löwis.
Meanwhile, cohesion in the community is crumbling.
When asked about the home, a loud argument breaks out at the local regulars' table.
Most people believe that problems come to Warngau with the refugees.
“You can just build a police station out of there,” says one.
“We've known each other for 40 years and now we're starting to argue,” another.
Some of the Gschwendtners' posters were defaced by unknown people.
One says: “FCK AFD” – Fuck AfD.
“Our daughter was approached by someone at Carnival,” the farmer’s wife says.
“He asked her why her parents were such Nazis.”
(Max Wochinger)