Grenzdurchgangslager Friedland
Heimkehrerstr. 18, 37133 Friedland, Niedersachsen, Germany
Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung
State initial reception facility at Heimkehrerstr. 18, 37133 Friedland, Niedersachsen. State reception is where asylum seekers are first accommodated and registered, before being distributed to a municipality. The authority publishes no capacity for this site. Run by Landesaufnahmebehörde Niedersachsen. Not solely asylum accommodation. Friedland has operated continuously since 1945 and is the only facility in Germany for Spätaussiedler, alongside Jewish immigrants from the former USSR, humanitarian admissions and asylum seekers. The authority publishes no current capacity.
Source
Landesaufnahmebehörde Niedersachsen, published standorte (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.