Quedlinburg closes asylum accommodation: Halved applications!
Quedlinburg closes asylum accommodation: Halved applications!
Quedlinburg, Deutschland - A striking decline in asylum applications in Germany is currently making headlines. The figures fell by almost 48 percent compared to the previous year, which has sustainable consequences for the accommodation of refugees. In May 2023, only 7,916 asylum applications were made nationwide, while there were over 17,000 in the previous year, reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung . This dramatic drop in the number of applications leads to the closure of a recording facility in Quedlinburg, which once served to strengthen the accommodation capacity.
The closure of the branch of the central point of contact for asylum seekers in Quedlinburg will be carried out this month. The state government of Saxony-Anhalt is now planning to concentrate the future initial reception of asylum seekers on two locations: the main office in Halberstadt and an extension in Stendal, which should go into full operation by the end of 2025. A strategic step to meet the changed requirements.
Current figures on the asylum situation
The main origin countries of the refugees are in 2023 and 2024 in particular Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan and Turkey. Saxony in particular had a significant decline in this context: The number of refugees has more than halved compared to the previous year. By November 2024, around 9,500 refugees had arrived in Saxony, which falls back to the level of 2020, so the MDR .
A look at the future
The current developments raise questions. How will asylum policy continue to be shaped, especially against the background that the majority of refugees from Ukraine do not apply asylum? Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine in February 2022, many Ukrainians have fled to Europe. At the end of April 2025, according to the foreigner register, around 1.2 million Ukrainian protection seekers in Germany were registered, which can receive a temporary residence permit unbureaucratically. An asylum procedure is often avoided in these cases.
In view of the reduced numbers and the closures, migration in Germany faces new challenges. It remains to be observed how politics reacts to the changed framework conditions and which measures are developed to integrate the refugees.
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