Hessian initial reception facility

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The Hessian initial reception facility , abbreviated HEAE , is located in Gießen on Rödgener Straße in the former US depot Gießen . From 1946 to 2018 the facility was located southwest of the train station in Meisenbornweg and was called Notaufnahmelager Gießen , Aufnahmerager Gießen and Durchgangslager Gießen . The initial reception facility is responsible for refugees and asylum seekers , their temporary accommodation, care and referral to Hessian districts, cities and municipalities. Organizationally, it is now assigned to the Gießen Regional Council, and has been a separate department since November 2016.

history

Family in the transit camp 1950, Federal Archives, Prof. Arntz
Construction work in the transit camp in Gießen (1950), Federal Archives, Prof. Arntz
Site plan of the emergency reception center (1977)

As a result of the Second World War , the “government transit camp ” was founded in 1946 as a refugee camp for so-called displaced persons , later it was called “zone camp”. The emergency admission law made the Gießen "emergency admission camp " from September 1, 1950 - alongside the Marienfelde and Uelzen-Bohldamm reception centers - the central point of contact for all refugees from the German Democratic Republic , especially after the failed uprising of June 17, 1953 in large numbers came. After the Wall was built in 1961 and the two other emergency reception centers closed, Gießen remained the smallest of the three.

Up until German reunification , 900,000 refugees and emigrants from the GDR had used the facility. In June 1990 the federal emergency reception center in Gießen closed.

In 1993 the name was changed to "Hessian initial reception facility for refugees in Gießen", which changed the task of the newly established office. Since then, the initial reception facility has been accepting repatriates as well as anyone who wants to apply for asylum . A few months earlier, a branch office of the Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees (BAFl), today the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), was opened on the site, where the asylum procedures of the people admitted here are carried out. The duration of the placement in the Hessian initial reception facility (HEAE) should be as short as possible. As a rule, those affected are not accommodated in the initial reception for longer than four to six weeks before they are forwarded to the districts by the regional council. There they wait for the outcome of the asylum procedure. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) makes the decision on the asylum application.

present

The facility in Meisenbornweg offered 500 permanent accommodation places. In May 2012 there were 434 people in the initial reception center, the number of refugees, which has increased since then, required the establishment of further permanent and temporary branch offices: in May 2015 there were 5,499 refugees in all parts of the facility, in July 2015 more than 7,900, in August 2015 more than 10,000, at the beginning of September 2015 over 12,000, in mid-September just under 16,000, at the end of September just under 19,000 (of which 5,500 in Giessen). In total, there were almost 31,000 new refugees in Hesse in 2014; this number was already reached at the end of June 2015. A total of around 110,000 people reached the state of Hesse as refugees in 2015. “Of these, 75,000 asylum seekers stayed here in Hesse. In 2016 there were around 20,500, in 2017 around 11,100 refugees. "

Due to the high number of refugees, the number of locations across the country was expanded and, after the decline, due to the closure of the so-called Balkan route , reduced in stages or made passive. In March 2017 there were nine active and four passive facilities in the HEAE, in March 2019 there were only the following five initial reception facilities:

Planned memorial site at Meisenbornweg ⊙

The initial reception location in Gießener Meisenbornweg was closed on September 30, 2018. Since then, some of the buildings have been used by the Landesbetrieb Bau und Immobilien Hessen (LBIH) as an office location. In the election campaign for the state elections in Hesse in 2018 , a reuse of the site as a memorial was discussed, in the coalition agreement of the parties CDU and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in December 2018 it was stated: “Especially during the period of German division and the refugee and migration movement in the In 2015 and thereafter, the Gießen emergency reception center achieved outstanding importance for Hesse and Germany. In order to preserve this heritage as a place of remembrance and learning, we want to develop a concept for this facility to transform it into a memorial . This should be done together with the federal government and the city of Giessen. "

literature

  • Jeannette von Laak: Sehnsuchtsort Gießen - On the history of the emergency room after the wall was built , In: Mitteilungen des Oberhessischen Geschichtsverein (MOHG), Vol. 99 (2014), pp. 185–194
  • Lars Witteck: From the initial reception center to the initial reception facility , In: Mitteilungen des Oberhessischen Geschichtsverein (MOHG), Vol. 99 (2014), pp. 195–209

Web links

Commons : Gießen transit camp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kw: GDR citizens are not always welcome . In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung, September 1, 2015
  2. ^ A b Reception facility of the State of Hesse. In: rp-giessen.hessen.de. Regional Council Giessen, accessed on August 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ dpa: For the first time over 10,000 refugees in the initial reception center in Gießen. In: http://www.giessener-anzeiger.de/ . August 17, 2015, accessed August 22, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Vaupel calls for smaller housing units for camp . In: Oberhessische Presse, August 28, 2015
  5. ↑ Five more branch offices . In: Gießener Anzeiger, September 16, 2015
  6. ↑ a b https://fluechtlinge.hessen.de/sites/fluechtlinge.hessen.de/files/content-downloads/2017_03_08_uebersicht_standorte_0_0.pdf
  7. ↑ Martin Lugauer: Hesse deports faster. RP Gießen implements specifications from Wiesbaden. In: Mittelhessen.de. June 25, 2015, accessed July 28, 2015 .
  8. ↑ dpa / lhe: Hessen is setting up more tents for asylum seekers. In: Mittelhessen.de. July 21, 2015, archived from the original on September 29, 2015 ; accessed on July 28, 2015 .
  9. ^ Hessian state government: Refugee access to Hesse . In: fluechtlinge.hessen.de, accessed on August 21, 2019
  10. ↑ Overview: locations after modification of the location organization concept . In: fluechtlinge.hessen.de, accessed: August 21, 2019
  11. ↑ Gießen: The future of the former refugee accommodation on Meisenbornweg has been clarified . In: Gießener Allgemeine, March 6, 2019, accessed on August 21, 2019
  12. ↑ What Black-Green is planning for Giessen . In: Gießener Allgemeine, December 25, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2019

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