Friedland: "Gateway to Germany" for Russian Germans. Friedland Friedland resettlement camp in germany and moving to permanent residence

The first target after returning to their historical homeland is the distribution camp for the city center. It opens doors for various categories of migrants: refugees, Jews, from the former USSR.

How to get to Friedland

• It is convenient to fly to Hanover by plane, then go by train to Göttingen and then take a train for a few minutes.
• But if you fly to Leipzig, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main or Dresden, the journey does not take much longer.

German rail links are excellent, with trains running quickly and frequently. Pay attention to the ticket price and arrival time.

Arrival in Friedland, in the background building # 16, where interviews are taking place.

It is inconvenient to get from Russia by train. The Berlin - Kassel - Friedland route has two changes in Germany. For a traveler laden with things, it is hardly the best option to ride through train stations.

Services of private companies provide maximum comfort. Arrivals will be met at the airport or train station and taken directly to. Transfer from Hanover costs approximately 200 €.

TRANSFER TO FREEDLAND

Get to Friedland in comfort! You will be met at Hanover airport by a Russian-speaking driver, who will help you load your luggage onto the bus and take you directly to the gate of the IDP camp in Friedland.

ORDER TRANSFER

If you are interested in how to get to the camp of late settlers cheaper, choose a bus. The time is longer and the least convenient.

What awaits you on the spot

Friedland's task is the initial registration of newly arrived Germans and resettlement across the territory of Germany. Average stay is 3 days.

Plan of the camp for the late settlers in Friedland

Working days are from Monday to Friday, but settling in new residents on weekends is not a problem. Arriving on Sunday, and dealing with business from Monday is a good option. The registration procedure takes place in building No. 1.

At the Friedland IDP camp, you will receive a leaflet with the appointed reception hours, questionnaires to fill out, a room key, a canteen card for the family. All are given gifts from charitable organizations - clothes and dictionaries.

It is not necessary to live in the camp area. rent a hotel or stay with friends / relatives, if the person agrees not to be late.

If your knowledge of German does not allow you to communicate freely, you can take a relative or friend who speaks the language for an interview. No one will be sent back for linguistic ignorance, but it is absolutely necessary to understand exactly what the officials say. It is definitely impossible to answer what questions are asked - everything is personal.

Check-in, document check, medical procedures

Arriving Germans are accommodated in buildings No. 5-7. The dining room is located in building no. 4 (at the entrance they check for a card and put a seal).

Camp dorm room in Friedland

Rooms and linens are clean. Not a hotel, but for a couple of days the weather does not. There is a sign near the door to the room, on which the family name, the number of residents and the date of arrival are written.

In building No. 16, late displaced persons are being checked papers and personal data specified in the questionnaire.

What documents need to be prepared for the first appointment:

1. Completed questionnaires
2. Aufnahmebescheid
3. Passports and birth and marriage certificates of family members

The questionnaire indicates the desired place of residence in Germany, which is discussed at the second interview.

During their stay, residents of the Friedland camp undergo fluorography. On the appointed day, the group is gathered in the morning and taken by bus to Göttingen, where medical examinations are carried out.

An example of lunch at the Friedland canteen

About health insurance and assistance

From the moment of arrival until distribution, all necessary medical assistance is provided free of charge. After registering for permanent residence in the first 78 weeks, the regional AOK fund is responsible for health insurance, regardless of status and benefits.

• Further, the state insurance for the unemployed is paid by the state.
• Employees can stay further in the AOK or change the company at their own discretion.
• Entrepreneurs choose between private and voluntary insurance.

Registrierschein

After passing interviews at the Friedland IDP camp and signing the distribution documents, a registration certificate and free tickets to the place of residence are issued.

In the hostels of the Friedland camp, children's corners have been made for playing in bad weather.

Persons with §4 born before 1956 are entitled to a one-time compensation - Eingliederungshilfe. The size varies depending on the date of birth and is 2000-3000 €. You can get money in Friedland or upon arrival for permanent residence.

From camp to your home

The choice of federal state and city is limited by the availability of vacancies and the budget.

• The south and center of Germany are overcrowded with refugees.
• Russian Germans are often offered the north of the FRG.
• You can get to the desired land if there are relatives who are ready to register you with them.

The distribution result is highly dependent on the official. Personal charm will have to be turned on at full strength. In the absence of a budget for benefits in the city, newcomers are denied in any case.

Ironically distributed to the chosen place if you own your own real estate in the country or voluntarily refuse social benefits.

Become a German citizen

You are allocated a room in a hostel or an apartment paid by social services.

Further actions:

1. The first step is to contact the City Hall - Rathaus, and register in Germany.
2. A copy of the received registration confirmation must be sent to the Friedland camp at the BVA address.
3. You will be sent a certificate of a late migrant - Spätaussiedlerbescheinigung, having received which, you become citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The time has come to issue German passports - the mayor's office is responsible for issuing them. But first, you are allowed to contact the registry office - Standesamt for a change in the spelling of names and surnames in the German manner. The procedure is performed once free of charge, then the correction of the letter costs 200 €.

Important! Children born in the period between arrival in Friedland and the receipt of the migrant certificates by their parents do not acquire German citizenship. Perhaps, in the future, the legal incident will be corrected, for now it is better for pregnant women at a later date not to leave before childbirth in order to avoid bureaucratic red tape that takes several years. Entering with a newborn does not bring problems. The birth of a child after receiving a certificate by one of the parents also automatically gives the infant German citizenship.

More about financial and housing issues

It is difficult to get out of the hostel. You will be offered social apartments if there are vacant ones, but in most cases you will have to look for housing on your own.

The apartment must be suitable for low-income payment terms. The specific size depends on the city, is responsible for paying housing for the able-bodied Jobcenter, and for the inoperative - Sozialamt. It is necessary to coordinate actions with the department. If everything complies with the rules, you receive guarantees for payment and can move out of the hostel.

We will have to communicate with officials of social services from the first day. Jobcenter issues questionnaires for registration at the labor exchange for able-bodied family members.

• Those who can work are paid unemployment.
• The disabled apply for the allowance at the Sozialamt.
• Kindergeld benefits are issued for children under 18 who have moved.

Resettlement in accordance with §4 opens the right to transfer the pension earned in the former USSR. To confirm the length of service, you will need a work book and a certificate from the PF from the country of departure on the amount of paid contributions. The papers must be returned to the state pension fund - Rentenversicherung.

To transfer money, you need to open an account with a German bank.

Depending on the land and the specific banking institution, a tax number may be required. This issue is resolved at the mayor's office or directly at the tax office - Finanzamt.

After completing the procedures, 102 € will be credited for each family member. They partly make up for the journey to the resettlement camp in Germany.

If you show proof of travel expenses above this amount, you can expect a higher refund. Arrivals by car are also subject to compensation. Keep proof of purchase of tickets, gasoline, any transportation costs to Friedland.

• After distribution and receipt of passports, it is allowed to move to any city at will. But the housing issue will have to be solved independently.
• Social benefits and the right to attend integration courses remain in full.
• Those receiving benefits must first agree with the city authorities, which is the purpose of the move, in order to continue to receive social assistance and housing payments. Uncoordinated relocation is fraught with loss of benefits.

Continuing education and German

If you immigrate with an engineering degree, you will be assigned to the Otto Benecke Foundation at the camp. The organization provides gratuitous scholarships to engineers from Eastern European countries. With this money, a technician can improve his qualifications or re-profile in the German way in one of the higher educational institutions with which the fund has concluded an agreement. Migrants under the age of 31 are assisted with the recognition of their diplomas.

With a registration certificate, you can take free integration courses lasting six months. Contact the foreigners office - Ausländeramt for authorization to take courses. If the distance to the venue is more than 3 kilometers, a free pass for public transport is laid.

The volume of the courses is 600 hours (an additional module on the main life issues in the country is optional). The content is roughly the same as the content of this website, only in German.

It is unrealistic for a working person to take courses, there is simply nowhere to take so much time.

The history of the appearance of the camp in Friedland

The camp was created in this town for a reason. It was built right after the war. We chose a place at the junction of 3 occupation zones: British, Soviet and American.

• At first, former prisoners returning from the USSR were settled there.
• Then they were used to accept defectors from the GDR to the FRG.
• Since 1980, migrants from the Soviet Union began to settle, and then people with German "roots".

Previously, there were several such camps for the resettlement of ethnic Germans, but then the migration flow dried up, and at the moment only Friedland remains open.

Frequently asked questions and discussion of the topic of PP on the forum

Based on materials from the site www.tupa-germania.ru

After arriving in Germany, like all late settlers, I had to arrive at the camp of the late settlers in Friedland.

I would like to start by saying that I flew all night on an airplane, since this was the first time in my life, I could not sleep on the plane. And so, having arrived at the camp at 12 noon, I was sleepy and powerless planned to quickly get the key and fall asleep where they would put me. The first step was to visit the commandant to somehow inform about himself and get the keys. Since it was 12 pm the commandant said that she had lunch. She asked me to wait after sitting in the corridor. Then the fun began. Returning half an hour later, the commandant began to call everyone on the speakerphone except me. After sitting for another two hours in anticipation, I felt that I was about to fall down and fall asleep right in the corridor, and besides, I really wanted to eat. Unable to bear it, I went ahead, entered, gave my call, passport and asked to issue me. The commandant handed over my papers to a girl sitting next to her at the computer, most likely an employee of the federal department. There she entered something for a long time and returned the documents to the commandant. Then the commandant gives me the papers and declares that there is no room in the camp and they are ready to put me in a hotel or they offered me to stay with my closest relatives. My closest relatives lived in Bavaria, and therefore I did not hesitate to agree to a hotel. Again asked to wait in the hallway. And after sitting until 16.30, being afraid to go somewhere, they suddenly call, a young girl comes out and says that I can take a suitcase, in 10 minutes her colleague will take me to the hotel. Taking a suitcase, an aged man met me, opened the trunk and I put my luggage there, tired and sat in the back seat. We drove for about 20 minutes and drove into some village, as it turned out later this is a resort town, we stopped near some kind of hotel. I pulled out my luggage and followed the man, he went to the reception, saying a few words, pointing at me with a finger, and left. I went to the reception and there they asked me a couple of questions if I smoke and something like that. Then they said when breakfast, lunch and dinner are on time. Nodding my head wearily, I climbed into my room. It was surprisingly nice, beautiful shower room, TV, but cold, very cold ... then I learned that the batteries must be turned on on their own. Turning on the battery, I took a shower and at 6 pm fell asleep without my hind legs and slept until lunch the next day. After lunch, I saw that I was not the only Russian speaker. In addition to me, 3 more families of late settlers lived in the hotel. We all met and talked for a couple of days until we were told at one of the breakfasts that tomorrow at 10 am a bus would pick us up and take us to the procedures. The next day, at exactly 10 o'clock, a bus arrived with 20 people and us. A girl on a dictaphone all over the bus announced that there is now a war in Syria and therefore there are a lot of refugees in the camp, asked us to sympathize with them and said that the employees are no less interested than we are to register us as soon as possible. Then I named everyone on the bus by their last names and noted who is and who is not. My name was already there. After that she walked along the bus and gave everyone a form and a slider in which it was written who we should visit.

Fluorography

First of all, we arrived in a neighboring town where the same girl who was on the bus took us to the fluorography. Having entered the hospital, we were led into a corridor with 4 doors. One person entered each of them, entering there I got into a small room, as I understood there it was necessary to undress. Taking off my outer clothing, I opened the next door and there the doctor took me to the apparatus, asked not to breathe. Literally a couple of minutes later, he nodded his head as if a sign that everything and I got dressed again and went out to everyone. We were asked to be in one place and did not diverge. After going through all Fluorographythe same girl said that now the children will be examined. For children Fluorographydid not. The children were examined by therapists, ENTs ... All were examined safely, all were given the results in their hands and we were taken to Friedland.

Initial registration

Then we were taken to the federal department, they told us to fill in the forms that we were given on the bus. There it is written in German and below in Russian, but fill in exclusively in German. There were approximately the following questions:

1. FULL NAME
2. Age
3. From where
4. Education
5. Work experience, where and when and by whom he worked
6. Relatives in Germany, where they live
7. Religion
8. Where I would like to live in Germany

And everything like that. After we were called by last name and brought into the office of an official who checked our profiles, entered the data into a computer.

After we were put on a bus and taken to hotels.

Secondary registration

Literally a couple of days later, they called us and said that a minibus would come and be ready with things. The next day we were brought to the camp with our things. They gave me a key to the room and told me to go back to the federal department building for a term. Arriving there I learned that they were looking for me in the morning. I said that I came and literally 30 minutes later the official called me not the same as in the first term, there was another official and he already took me to his office and there he also filled out something and then said that he had submitted a request to the land and the city where I want to live. He asked me to sit and wait. After sitting for about an hour, he called me again and already gave me the documents that I was registered, sent to courses and sent to the hostel where I will live. It turned out not to be the city I wanted, but completely different. 400 km from the city where I wanted to live. Well, here I was powerless, so after thanking for everything I retired to my room in the camp.

The final stage

The next day, I visited the Job Center, where they brought me a questionnaire and gave it to me so that I could give it to my place of residence. Then he went to the commandant and gave the documents and said that I was leaving, asked to wait, after 30 minutes they called me and showed me a train ticket and said that they would give it tomorrow. They gave us 110 euros, partial compensation for my expenses on my arrival in Germany. After spending the night in the camp, at 7 in the morning I came to the commandant and gave the keys and in return for me a train ticket and a bunch of papers that were useful in the city at my place of residence.

This is approximately the stage that all late settlers go through in the camp in Friedland. In the following articles I will talk about adaptation in the city, the first steps that will undoubtedly be useful to you. And I will give you a couple of practical tips.

Friedland is a small, very small town in Lower Saxony, only 14 kilometers from Göttingen. Relatives brought me there directly from the airport - so that, therefore, I got used to and completed all the necessary formalities.

I saw there a cluster of small one-story yellow buildings that had been recommended to me in advance as barracks. The time was late, so they just gave me the keys to the room and a card that was supposed to give me food, and they told me where and when I should come in the morning for registration.

The rooms are for four, with four iron beds and four lockers. But there are very few people (after all, almost everyone left the CIS until the mid-2000s), so I lived all week in my room alone, walked along quiet corridors, boiled tea in an empty kitchen. By the way, the teapots there are fixed in place with some kind of locks: either so that they are not stolen, or so that they are not turned on in the rooms, violating fire safety rules. Apparently, the Germans do not really believe in the presence of a legal consciousness among the newly arrived.

It seems that people in the barracks are grouped according to their ethnicity. There are a couple of almost empty buildings for visitors from Russia and Kazakhstan (the latter are much more) and there are a lot of other buildings, densely populated with people with a less European appearance. Obviously, Negroes (from Somalia, from somewhere else) and, of course, Arabs (these are from Syria and Libya). They all meet three times a day at the same time, in the same place. At the entrance to the dining room, at 7.00, 11.30 and 16.30. They gather in advance, in a very dense crowd at the very doors, and when the guard opens the door (and he does this with an invariably squeamish expression on his face), they rush in, pushing each other away. Actually there is enough food for everyone, and it’s not worth it (besides, the food is frankly bad), but people are still worried.

I can't help but say something else about cultural peculiarities: next to the Friedland train station, right on the asphalt, during one walk I saw a bunch of human excrement. Around - the usual Germanic purity, and here - this. I suspect that the culprit of the incident was not at all an indigenous resident ... And a photograph of another "non-indigenous", namely a Somali, hangs in all administrative buildings. The man became famous for stabbing someone right there, in the camp, and has not yet been found.

But in general, refugees are a fairly calm audience, and many of them try to behave correctly. For example, they say "sorry", "thank you" or "hello" depending on the situation, in German or English. Do not go ahead of their turn (well, almost never). And there was still only one unpleasant find, although I went around the whole town many times in an attempt to unwind.

True, most of the "immigrants" are still very dissatisfied with the migration policy of Germany. After standing in a general queue, under advertisements in Chinese, Polish and four versions of Arabic, looking at pregnant black women, whose skirts were grabbed by another couple of children, at uncontrolled Arab boys running, shouting and studying with great interest the world, Russians (well, or "Russians", the devil only knows) start up conversations at a meal on a limited range of topics: "why are they letting all these in?", "Look, look, what a face!" and even "the Germanic race has completely degenerated."

Refugees live in the camp, as I understand it, for a long time. There are also courses for them german language... But the settlers live in Friedland for an average of four days, until they complete the necessary documents. Registration first. "First you have to anmeldovatsya", say experienced people, following the established fashion unpleasant for me - to insert German words modified into Russian into Russian speech. Each migrant is given a "slider" with a list of all places and actions, and - the process has started.

First you need to go to Göttingen for an x-ray. People with open tuberculosis from Germany, of course, are not expelled: they are sent to a specialized camp located somewhere nearby, where they are treated. And then you have to go around five more rooms in the camp itself, and go to some of them more than once. It takes about three days. Officials must record information about education and work experience, conclude an agreement for receiving benefits, find out if there are places in the federal state where the displaced person wants to go. By the way, I was not very lucky with this: my relatives live in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, but these lands are the most popular, and they were sent there, at least in those days, only if there were siblings or children-parents there. Uncles and aunts are not close enough relatives, alas. So I was offered a choice between Mecklenburg-Pomerania and Saxony. Top, that is. Of course, I chose the latter.

Yes, I almost forgot: a favorite topic of conversation in the queues in front of offices is German officials. I must confess that it surprised me. About just abandoned Russia, in which this is clearly worse, no one remembers, but they complain about the Germans. They work slowly, for show, they are not very welcoming, they do not accept at the appointed time. The latter, by the way, is true. Moreover, it happened that they appointed an appointment in the early morning - at 7.30, for example, and made me wait until ten.

Well. They assigned me Saxony as a place of residence and asked me to live in Friedland for three more days, until a place becomes available here. It was Friday-Sunday, so there was simply no one in the Russian barracks. Absolutely. To entertain myself, I went to Göttingen, then went to Kassel, and on Monday morning at six in the morning I received a ticket when I left the camp and went east - with transfers in Schneewald, Halle, Leipzig, Dresden and Pirn.

Finally - photos from my building.

Surnames and the number of persons are written next to each door (above, of course; below - the room number):

Ceiling window:

The map was very relevant:

Warn about phone scammers:

Kitchen:

This hangs over the sink:

There are two such structures in each room:

15 km from the German city of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, there is a small settlement, which plays the role of the first haven for all those who are looking for salvation and protection in Germany. By the early 2000s, this place was practically deserted, and it was decided to transform its territory into a memorial museum. But by 2014 the situation had changed dramatically, and today the once-lost settlement is again overcrowded with refugees and migrants in need of asylum. Knowing what the Friedland camp is today will be useful to anyone who plans to move to this part of Europe as an immigrant.

How did the camp start

The appearance of a place of temporary residence for migrants in this part of the country is not accidental. The camp was founded at the very end of World War II. It was here that three zones of occupation came into contact: the Soviet (Thuringia), the British (Lower Saxony) and the American (Hesse). If we add that the most important railway lines for that time between Kassel and Hanover passed between the three, then we can say that the place of foundation of the settlement was predetermined.

The idea of \u200b\u200barranging the camp was put forward by the British troops, who chose the territory of the research laboratories of the University of Göttingen. The Friedland camp for migrants began working on September 20, 1945. Over the years, it has been used for different purposes:

• the first inhabitants were freed prisoners who were returning from the USSR;
• further defectors followed from the territory of the GDR to the lands of the FRG;
• in the 80s of the last century Soviet migrants were settled in Friedland;
• later - "Russian Germans".

In the middle of the 20th century, there were a considerable number of such places of settlement of late settlers. But due to the fact that their flow has gradually decreased, today only Friedland remains active.

How can you get to the camp

You can get to Friedland in different ways:

• by plane to Hanover, from there by train to Göttingen and then a little more to the final destination by train.
• by rail. This way of arriving from Russia is not the most convenient: only in Germany you will need to make two transfers - in Berlin and in Kassel. Given the number of things a migrant can have, it becomes clear that this is not an easy option.
• flight to Hanover, then by taxi to the camp. This pleasure will cost about 220 euros.
• by bus from the Russian Federation - the journey is the longest and not the most comfortable.

Alternatively, you can contact intermediary companies that provide resettlement services in Germany, meet at the airport and then take care of all the transfer concerns.

What awaits the settlers in the camp

The main goal of the work of the camp is the registration of new arrivals and their resettlement throughout German territory. The period for which newbies can be accepted is 3-4 days. This time is enough for the following procedures:

• verification of available documents and compliance with the data in the questionnaire;
• fluorography;
• passing interviews with representatives of the employment center.

In order not to get confused in the upcoming actions, the refugee receives a special leaflet containing the schedule and location of certain events.

Throughout this period, the migrant lives in the room allocated for him. Immediately after arrival, new residents are issued coupons to visit the dining room. And although food at public expense cannot be called varied and complete, it is enough to satisfy basic needs. There is a shop on the territory of the settlement where you can buy missing products.

The main problem of those seeking asylum is the lack of knowledge of the German language. For this purpose, it would be good to enlist the support of relatives, if they are available in Germany. If not, the state is ready to provide assistance by providing an interpreter.

In the process of identification and registration, the migrant has the opportunity to change the spelling of the surname and first name according to the German model.

For example, “Ivan” can become “Johan” and “Stepan” - “Stefan”. Please note that you can make changes and abandon the Russian patronymic (in Germany it is not accepted) only once for free. All further attempts to make adjustments, even if it is just one letter, will cost 200 euros.

As for the ethnic composition of the camp, today it accepts not only ethnic Germans. In 2009, the first refugees from Iraq arrived here. In 2013, Friedland became a refuge for the first Syrian migrants. Today, this organization works beyond its capabilities, providing a roof over their heads to immigrants from Libya, Afghanistan, Syria.

How is the distribution for permanent residence?

The final stage is the distribution already for permanent residence throughout the country. Only in last years this procedure was started taking into account the wishes of the migrant. Previously, he had no choice and had to put up with any decision of the commission.

To get to the right place, a beginner only needs to indicate in his profile the region and even the settlement in which he would like to settle. However, no one can guarantee that this desire will be satisfied. But in any case, officials are trying to meet the applicant halfway.

The migrant receives a document with his new data, which will serve as his identity card. Together with him, the late migrant is awarded tickets to the place of new residence and 102 euros for each of the family members. This amount will make it possible to at least partially offset the funds spent on the trip to Friedland.

It is important to understand that a refugee camp in Germany is the primary reception point for those in need. The document that is issued to them after registration only confirms that they have arrived in the country legally, have been registered and are ready to move permanently to the region of their choice. The process of legalization and recognition of a candidate as a migrant or refugee begins at the place of his permanent residence.

What is the Otto Beneke Foundation

Migrants who managed to get a higher technical education before moving to Germany have special privileges. In particular, an engineering degree allows a newcomer to receive a referral to the Otto Benecke Foundation.

The main mission of the Foundation is to provide special non-refundable scholarships to engineers who come from Eastern Europe. The money received allows you to re-profile or improve your existing qualifications. This makes it possible to adapt to the German labor market as much as possible and get a good job with a high income.
Foreign specialists are undergoing retraining at one of the German universities, with which the Foundation has signed an agreement. In addition to this project, the organization supports all kinds of educational programs that allow migrants to arrange their future in new conditions.

Rapid Integration Courses

A migrant who has arrived at his permanent place of residence is worried about the speedy integration into a society that is still alien to him. Thanks to the help of the state, which assumes not only the reception, but also their arrangement, the late migrant gets the opportunity, on the basis of his registration certificate, to take advantage of free courses that will help to assimilate with the local population as soon as possible. The duration of the courses is 6 months. During the training, the beginner receives basic information on all aspects of life in Germany:

• legislation,
• features of the culture and traditions of the German nation.

The knowledge acquisition process is divided into 6 modules. Each of them contains 100 hours of lessons. The entire course is divided into two main groups: language and orientation. Lessons in the first of them allow you to master German in the most necessary areas: a visit to the doctor, a telephone conversation, a trip to a cafe or restaurant. The orientation course introduces migrants to culture, legislation and other adaptation issues.

After the courses are completed, the student will have to pass the B1 exam and receive a certificate. If the migrant has plans to enter a university, he will have to continue his studies.

findings

Conceived back in 1945 as, Friedland today welcomes people from all over the world who are fleeing war and unfavorable living conditions under its roof.

Russian migrants can get here by direct bus or plane. The further journey upon arrival in the country will have to be planned taking into account the composition of the family and the amount of available luggage, since more than one transfer has to be made.

Upon arrival at the camp, beginners can count on living space, meals, and medical support. After registering and completing all the necessary documents, migrants are sent to their place of permanent residence, where they will begin.

Camp Friedland: Video

We flew from Siberia. Tickets were for March 3 to Dusseldorf. We deliberately bought the tickets not before Hanover, for a banal reason - tickets to Dusseldorf cost us 300 ... 350 euros for two, the same tickets to Hanover would cost 500 euros +.
In addition, we were just interested to see this city. We booked an inexpensive but very decent hotel near the Hauptbahnhof. We rested after flights / transfers and at lunchtime we got on the train to Friedland. Tickets and discount card bahncard 25: ordered more from the Russian Federation in advance. Everything was very simple and convenient. On the evening of the 4th we were already in Friedland. We settled in the 5th barrack. The people in Friedland are in darkness. There are 20-30 migrants and 200-250 refugees. At the end of our stay there, several refugees were accommodated in a barrack with the settlers, since there was simply no room. About Friedland himself, food there, conditions and so on, enough has been said - a small, beautiful, clean and tidy town. The only thing I can note is what "shots" are found among the settlers - this is a quiet darkness. Sitting on the "courts" near the barracks, drinking beer from the throat and peeling seeds right there on the ground - these gentlemen were not at all embarrassed.
Distribution.
Since we had no relatives, there were few options to get to Bavaria or NRV. This, in fact, was confirmed at the meeting with the berator. He just showed a list of all lands and quotas for each. Berator, fortunately, spoke English, although worse than us))). We approached the issue openly. We just asked what we want to go to a big city and what would they advise us as IT specialists? They seemed to be impressed, they said that Thuringia, Brandenburg, Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt and the north would not suit us in any way, since these are practically only the C \\ X regions. Saxony was advised. We didn't break down too much and agreed. When we came to the next term to the berator, he said that we were not going to Leipzig, but near Leipzig, which I didn’t like at all (he said that in Leipzig all the Haims were packed), and after he gave the exact address and I googled where this and how we were seized by a slight shock.
Near Leipzig there was a very small town called Wurzen, it was unexpected, but not so scary. It turned out that the haim is located in the village of Trebelshain, 6 km from this very Wurzen. And there is no transport, no shop or bakery. Even the connection worked poorly there. We arrived there on March 11th.
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The nearest transport is an electric train, the stop of which is 2 km from this "farm". 2km on a windswept road just to go to Wurzen and buy groceries.
The biggest shock we experienced was when the housemaster of this haim finally brought us there.
Cold, 2-storey building in the style of "welcome to the USSR and the GDR", a map of the USSR from the GDR in half a wall. Cast iron batteries and furniture from the USSR. Dust, cobwebs. Bunk beds. The image was completed by the view from the window of the barn with the rams that grazed outside the window, as well as a note written in Russian and pasted over the urinal in the men's room - "Don't flatter yourself - come closer!"










It was evident that this haim was very rarely sent in recent years. Besides us, there was only one family from Kazakhstan, who left there a few days after we stopped.
With all the obvious disadvantages of this place and this haim, there were also advantages, as it turned out later.
1. Housemaster. Elderly German Herr Herberdt 65 years old. He helped in everything, drove everywhere in his car. It was evident that he knew all the procedures perfectly. He spoke only German with a hellish dialect, which we learned to understand a little. I helped fill out all the anthrages, I comment on every difficult line or word in the anthrages.
2. The speed of bureaucracy. On the second day in Khaim, we visited the Jobcenter and Burgersamt. On the third day, we already had German temporary annual passports (Reisepassen) and an open account in Sparkas. A week later, we had sparkass cards in hand, and a week later we received certificates of a late migrant from Friedland.
3. Heim could be said to be empty, and therefore we could quite easily dispose of a huge kitchen with a bunch of dishes, designed in fact for 10-15 families and a huge dining room. We lived in a room on the second floor and we could say we had a private bathroom (very clean I must say), where we calmly left all the washing utensils.
4. The absence of azulants (refugees) was a positive factor. I have a normal attitude towards people of the East, but let's say different approaches to hygiene in Russia and let's say Afghanistan, as well as religious aspects, would create certain inconveniences.
Search for an apartment.
As soon as the neighbors in the Khaim from Kazakhstan, with the help of relatives, found an apartment and moved out of the Khaim, we also took care of finding housing. The sky-famous website http://www.immobilienscout24.de came to the rescue
We put together a very polite letter in German explaining who we are and what we want, and I began to methodically send inquiries to the apartments of interest to us and meeting the social norms. Previously, I studied in which areas of Leipzig it is definitely better not to meddle, and which are good (why do you need the Turkish quarter for example ?!). The fact is that farmers are very reluctant to rent apartments to applicants who receive social benefits ALG-II, which almost all of us, migrants at first, are (and this point must be discussed when looking for housing - otherwise you will simply waste time / ride in vain). On sent 30 messages received 3 or 4 replies. We examined the apartments and chose one. The farmer was a private trader, not a broker. This was his home. Among other things, the farmer spoke English well, which improved mutual understanding 5 times.
Dry result. On the 3rd of March we landed in Germany, and on the 1st of April we moved into an apartment in the wonderful and big city of Leipzig. Courses ahead ... and much more. I don’t presume to judge myself, because I don’t have experience, but my friend, who has lived here for many years, said that everything worked out FANTASTICALLY quickly. If someone has questions - write in a personal, that I can - then I will tell you. Good luck to all!

Auf Wiedersehen!