Ankunftszentrum München, Garmischer Straße
Garmischer Str. 2, München, Bayern, Germany · BA 08 Schwanthalerhöhe
900 bed places · Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung Regierung von Oberbayern
City’s planning status: in Betrieb
Bavaria's arrival centre for asylum seekers, in the former Arabella Sheraton hotel at Heimeranplatz. The Regierung von Oberbayern rented the building in spring 2022 to accommodate refugees and opened it as the ANKER arrival centre in 2025, describing it as the first point of contact for asylum seekers across Upper Bavaria, registration, biometric data, health checks and appointments for the formal asylum application with BAMF. The state authority gives its capacity as up to 900 residents across 328 rooms on eleven floors, and the city's register records the same 900 bed places. It replaced the previous sites at Maria-Probst-Straße and Lotte-Branz-Straße in the Euroindustriepark.
Timeline
Spring 2022
State authority rents the former Sheraton hotel
The Regierung von Oberbayern rented the former Arabella Sheraton hotel at Heimeranplatz to accommodate refugees. Local reporting set out the plan to convert the building into a reception centre for newly arriving asylum seekers with capacity of around 900 beds.
11 Aug 2025
Accommodation opens
Recorded opening date in the city's register of accommodation sites, with 900 bed places (Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung Regierung von Oberbayern).
Landeshauptstadt München, Sozialreferat: Unterkunftsstandorte (Stand 31.12.2025)
16 Aug 2025
Refugee council criticises the new site
The Münchner Flüchtlingsrat issued a statement headed "Neuer ANKER-Standort in München, Rückschritt statt menschenwürdiger Unterbringung" (a step backwards rather than dignified accommodation). Reported here as the organisation’s stated position.
17 Sep 2025
Opens as Bavaria’s ANKER arrival centre
The Regierung von Oberbayern announced the new ANKER site as the first point of contact for asylum seekers in Upper Bavaria, handling registration, biometric data, health examinations and appointments for the formal asylum application with BAMF. It gave the capacity as up to 900 residents in 328 rooms across eleven floors, replacing the previous locations at Maria-Probst-Straße and Lotte-Branz-Straße in the Euroindustriepark.
23 Jul 2035
End of permitted use
The date to which the city records this site as permitted for accommodation use. It is a permission end-date, not a confirmed closure, the permission may be extended.
Landeshauptstadt München, Sozialreferat: Unterkunftsstandorte (Stand 31.12.2025)
No city council siting decision is published for this address. The facility is state-run and sited by the Land rather than the city, so a council decision would not be expected.
Source
Landeshauptstadt München, Sozialreferat: Unterkunftsstandorte für Geflüchtete und Wohnungslose ab 48 Bettplätzen (Stand 31.12.2025), Geoportal München (2025-12-31) · 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. The details here come from the Munich Sozialreferat’s register, taken from the city Geoportal’s WFS service, including the city’s own coordinates, so nothing is geocoded by us. The register states the target group, which lets asylum accommodation be separated from homeless accommodation; the latter is excluded here (77 of 164 sites). Dispersed accommodation below 48 bed places is outside the scope of the source.