Senate plans Container Village on Fu Berlin's universities

Senate plans Container Village on Fu Berlin's universities

In Berlin-Dahlem, there is resistance to the planned establishment of a container village for 260 refugees on a idle university at Thielallee 63. The Free University, which intends to build a building for teaching and research there, rejected temporary accommodation for refugees on the premises. The President of the University, Günter Ziegler, complained not to have been included in the Senate plans and emphasized the willingness of the university to support refugee people within the scope of their opportunities.

The Free University pointed out that the planned area of ​​2023 urgently needed for its own construction work and proposed to use empty buildings of the Federal Agency for Real Estate as an alternative. The special representative for refugee issues at the Senate, Albrecht Broemme, emphasizes the opportunity to accommodate refugees on the fallow site as long as it remains unused.

The Senate decided at the end of March to build 16 other container villages in various districts in Berlin in order to counter the lack of apartments for refugees. The ruling mayor Kai Wegner said that further locations are considered because the previous measures are not sufficient. The planned container villages are to be created on fallow land, parking spaces and other free areas, whereby the focus is primarily on the eastern districts.

The planned construction of a container village on the universe area in Steglitz-Zehlendorf encounters resistance, in particular by some residents and the Free University. Discussions on the Internet emphasize the apparent discrepancy between the cosmopolitanism of the university and the resistance to refugee accommodation. Critics call for the temporary use of the parking lot on Thielallee 63 for the accommodation of refugees and criticize the supposed inconsistency in the attitude of the university on the refugee question.