One can assume that the people who fled from the Ukraine and are now living in the Gymnasium in Kirchseeon have already done enough in the past few weeks and months. But now something else has been added that is delaying their departure from the hall – and possibly also messing up the district’s schedule. Cases of chickenpox have occurred among the residents, so for now they have to stay in quarantine in the hall. Brigitte Keller, head of the Ukraine crisis team in the district office, explained this at a press conference on Wednesday.
Currently, 18 people still live in the hall, which was rededicated as accommodation in March. Ideally, the hall should only remain a stopover for the refugees, after which they will be transferred to smaller government accommodations or housed with host families. Many people in the district are still willing to temporarily give Ukrainians a new home.
But here and there it also jerks, as Brigitte Keller knows: There are hosts who, on the one hand, want to have their houses or apartments to themselves again, but on the other hand do not want their guests to have to move back to large state accommodation. Unfortunately, says Brigitte Keller, that is sometimes the only alternative: Very rarely can the communities enable the refugees to move from the guest rooms into their own apartments, the market is simply too tight for that.
The number of Ukrainians living in the district is now declining slightly, but is still high. 1830 were still officially registered on Wednesday, at times it was almost 2000.
The situation in Kirchseeon also means “really stressful” for those responsible in the district office, as Keller emphasizes. The relocation is not going as planned, so the district could run out of time. According to Keller, the goal is actually to close the accommodation soon and to make the hall available again for sports at the beginning of the school year in September.