Bahnhofsmission München
At platform 11 at Munich Central Station, the Bahnhofsmission helps people in need around the clock every day.
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The Bahnhofsmission at platform 11 helps people in emergency situations around the clock, 365 days a year.
In 1897, Ellen Ammann and the women of the Marian Girls' Protection Association (now IN VIA Munich) founded the first Catholic Bahnhofsmission in Germany at Munich Central Station.
The aim was to protect the girls and young women, who came to the city from the countryside in large numbers at the time, from exploitation, human trafficking and prostitution.
Today, the Bahnhofsmission is ecumenically organised by IN VIA München e.V. and Evangelisches Hilfswerk gGmbH.
The Bahnhofsmission is open to everyone around the clock, seven days a week. It is a low-threshold first point of contact for people in social difficulties and travellers. The task of the Bahnhofsmission is to provide flexible and unbureaucratic support in an acute emergency and longer-term referral to authorities, specialist centres and social institutions. It is a contact and referral point, a place for initial and emergency care with accommodation, a counselling and information centre and acts as an advocate for people in emergency situations.
The Bahnhofsmission performs a wide variety of tasks:
