Emergency shelter

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Dormitory in the urban asylum for the homeless in Berlin, December 1930: Up to 3,000 men and women stayed in this facility every day

Emergency shelters are places where the homeless can spend the night. As a rule, these are large dormitories with no privacy, but mostly with lockers , shared showers and toilets. In individual cases, food, washing machines, clothing, toiletries, social work and medical care are also offered in emergency sleeping places . Depending on the facility, access is restricted to either residents , women , young people , junkies or non-junkies. Most of the emergency sleeping places are free of charge, others charge a symbolic fee. In some institutions the homeless person has to register again every day and has no guarantee of a place to sleep, in others there is a subscription to the place to sleep.

Emergency shelter is a low-threshold supply of homeless people. They are historically founded in the time of migrant workers and are therefore only open at night. This differs from an emergency shelter , which is open around the clock. In the late 19th and first half of the 20th century and in the Anglo-American region, emergency sleeping places were and are entirely voluntary . Today, however, there are also highly professionally organized emergency sleeping places in continental Europe with state funding .

Modern social work is critical of emergency sleeping places as they do not stabilize the target group and those affected are forced to spend the whole day on the street even in bad weather. The counterpart to the emergency shelter is the day center, in which the homeless can stay during the day without being forced to consume .

Examples in Germany

Examples in Austria

  • In Vienna, the Meldemannstrasse men's dormitory in the 20th district is well known. The men's asylum, consisting of two five-story blocks, offered space for 410 men. Adolf Hitler lived here from February 1910 to May 1913. This earned the building the nickname Hitler's villa , as Gerhard Roth describes in his book A Journey into the Inner City of Vienna . In 2003 the home was closed.
  • VinziRast-CortiHaus , also located in Vienna.
  • The emergency shelter Hermes , an emergency shelter operated by the Red Cross , is also located in Vienna
  • The NOWA of the social association B37 in Linz.

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Roth : The Hitler Villa. In: Gerhard Roth: A journey into the heart of Vienna. Essays (= The Archives of Silence. Volume 7 = Fischer Pocket Books 11407). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11407-1 , pp. 89-109.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva's stop. Social Service of Catholic Women eV Berlin, accessed on April 7, 2019 .