ANKER-Einrichtung Oberfranken Bamberg
Erlenweg 4, 96050 Bamberg, Bayern, Germany
1.500 places · ANKER-Einrichtung
ANKER facility at Erlenweg 4, 96050 Bamberg, Bayern. State reception is where asylum seekers are first accommodated and registered, before being distributed to a municipality. The authority records 1,500 places here. Run by Regierung von Oberfranken. On the former Warner Barracks. 1,500 regularly usable beds; occupancy 1,037 at 30 June 2026. An NGO figure of up to 3,400 places refers to nominal rather than usable capacity. The BAMF branch is a different building on the same site, at Buchenstrasse 4.
Source
Bayerische Bezirksregierungen, published ANKER-Einrichtungen and dependancen (2026-08-01) · official
Germany is federal: the Bund funds it, the Länder and municipalities run it. There is no national register, so this coverage starts city by city. This is a state-run facility rather than a municipal one: the Länder run the reception stage, where asylum seekers are first accommodated and registered before being distributed to a municipality. Bavaria calls these ANKER centres, most other Länder call them Erstaufnahmeeinrichtungen. Each Land was researched separately against its own authority, because there is no national list. These authorities publish a postal address but not a coordinate, so the position here is derived from the address rather than supplied by the authority, and facilities published by town only are deliberately not pinned at a town centre.