The district of Freising has been desperately looking for accommodation for refugees since August. Even on the radio and via the real estate market, said Sandra Schulenberg, head of the asylum and refugee management department at the Freising district office, during a press conference on Wednesday. After all, it was possible to requisition more than 25 apartments in this way. To her regret and that of District Administrator Helmut Petz, it was not possible to keep all the gyms sponsored by the district free for classes. The sports hall of the Lerchenfelder Realschule Gute Änger had to serve as the initial reception center.
But children, young people and other athletes can breathe a sigh of relief: The dismantling of the beds in the gym is progressing and will probably be completed by the weekend. She will be available for sport again in the middle of next week.
“The world is in disarray,” Petz said of the asylum seekers assigned to the district by the Upper Bavarian government. Then there are the many refugees from Ukraine. “We will be able to meet the challenges,” said the district administrator confidently.
His optimism is based on the fact that the district can take in a larger number of refugees in the short and medium term. From February, the former vaccination center in the former staff building of the Steinkaserne will serve as the first point of contact. According to Sandra Schulenberg, this consists of 70 beds in 20 rooms. An office building in Hallbergmoos will be added in the spring. Up to 250 people can move in there.
From July there will also be a container facility on the former university sports field on Wippenhausener Straße. Refugees were already housed there between 2015 and 2018, between the Camerlohe high school and the vocational school. However, fewer people are supposed to be accommodated there than back then. Up to 180 people, said Sandra Schulenberg. This container facility may delay the construction of a new vocational school.
More and more people are arriving from Turkey
The head of the asylum and refugee management department at the district office reported that 1980 refugees from the Ukraine were currently living in the Freising district. The turnover is high. “There is a coming and going,” Sandra Schulenberg described the situation. Some of this group of people went back to their homeland, others even move on to the USA.
A total of 2160 refugees are currently living in 99 accommodations in the district. It is interesting, Sandra Schulenberg remarked, that more and more people are arriving from Turkey. These are mostly Kurds. Other countries of origin are Afghanistan and Syria.
The allocation to the accommodation “is like a puzzle at a high level,” said Sandra Schulenberg. Some groups of people can only be accommodated under one roof to a limited extent. Some shelters only accommodate women with children, while others only accommodate people from Ukraine. It is particularly difficult that the district office only finds out 24 hours before the arrival of the refugees who the group is.