The refugee accommodation on Maxie-Wander-Straße is to be vacated. District Councillor Stefan Bley (CDU) announced the decision at a meeting of the Marzahn-Hellersdorf District Assembly (BVV). The “many joint discussions” between the district and the State Office for Refugee Affairs and Accommodation (LFU) had produced a “positive result,” Bley said. No new residents will be admitted to the facility, and the main building is to be vacated by April 2027.
The decision is linked to plans for a new school on the opposite property at Auerbacher Ring 21. A community school with a sports hall is scheduled to open there for the 2027/2028 school year. The District Assembly has already approved the plans. The building on Maxie-Wander-Straße, where refugees currently live, formerly housed a secondary school. Together with the new school on Auerbacher Ring, it is to form part of a new school campus.
Hellersdorf Refugee Accommodation: Families with Schoolchildren to Stay in the District
It remains unclear when the second building will be vacated. According to LFU spokesperson Sascha Langenbach, it will “depend to some extent on whether and how quickly replacement accommodation can also be found for residents of the second building.”
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There are currently 360 people living in the accommodation on Maxie-Wander-Straße: 215 in the main building and 145 in the second building. The accommodation is “fully occupied,” Langenbach said in response to an inquiry from the Berliner Morgenpost. No further arrivals are currently planned. According to the spokesperson, this “would also make no sense in view of the imminent relocation of the residents.”
The LFU is responsible for 239 residents. According to Langenbach, the LFU considers it particularly important to rehouse families with school-age children within Marzahn-Hellersdorf, where the children are already enrolled in school. “The remaining individuals will be accommodated by the other responsible authorities.” No new refugee accommodation is currently planned in the district.
This article was originally written and published on the 8th of July 2026 in German. It was translated in English with the use of Artificial Intelligence.
