Dresden closes all asylum containers: a decline in the refugee number!

Dresden closes all asylum containers: a decline in the refugee number!

in Dresden is happening that many can be noticed: the city is planning to close six transition homes for asylum seekers at the end of 2025. These container systems, which were only built on urban properties two years ago, are now being closed due to the greatly sunken number of newly coming asylum seekers. Various locations in the city, including Gorbitz, Strehlen, Löwenhainer Straße, Sachsenplatz and Windmühlenstraße in Niedersedlitz, are affected. The contracts for these facilities are not extended, instead the containers should be dismantled and used otherwise, as MDR. Incidentally,

In the district of North Saxony, accommodation in Eilenburg will also close. There, the lease for the residential containers in the industrial area on Schanzberg is not extended, which District Administrator Kai Emanuel regrets. Despite this closure, there are efforts to find a new accommodation in Eilenburg. He contradicts the assumption that there will be no need in the future and refers to relaxation of the current numbers.

declining number of asylum seekers

The reasons for the closures are clear: the number of asylum seekers has been reversed since 2024. For the current year, the city administrations in Dresden expect only 800 asylum seekers and an additional 100 people from Ukraine. For comparison: In the crisis year 2023 there were 2,125 refugees and in 2022 there were 1,556 (https://www.tag24.de/dresden/weniger-gefluechte-in-der-stadt-baut-alle-containerdoerfer-ab-339247) reported.

For the individual locations, the planning looks as follows: In Niedersedlitz, 152 places, 144 places and 48 places in Gorbitz are to be closed in Strehlen. The containers in Seidnitz, Trachau and Johannstadt are also affected, whose total numbers amount to 48 to 65 places. The containers, originally temporarily temporarily temporarily temporarily limited to 24 months

A look at the data

take a closer look, it shows that the migration numbers in Germany have a decline in the first quarter of 2025. The federal police report around 14,600 unauthorized entry, which corresponds to 24% less than in the previous year. The figures for asylum seekers are also particularly relevant: While almost 57,000 asylum applications were recorded in 2023, around 25,500 people expressed an asylum application throughout 2024. To a similar observation Media service Integration that indicate that irregular entry is difficult to quantify, since not all are recorded.

The closures of the asylum accommodations in Dresden and in the district of North Saxony reflect a larger trend that is related to the declining number of refugees. It will be exciting to observe how the situation will develop in the coming months.