You can manage on your own, but it’s better together. We support the establishment of a WhatsApp group for people from Ukraine. This is to enable them to get in touch with each other and to be informed very quickly. Send us an email with your mobile phone number to ak-asyl-mgh@t-online.de or drop by our office if you would like to be included in such a WhatsApp group.

The Main-Tauber district has a waste separation scheme. You can download a leaflet on this subject in various languages, explaining what needs to be disposed of and how, here. There are four different types of bin. You can find out when each type of waste is collected from your home in the waste collection calendar or via the waste app.

Yellow bin

Packaging made of plastic, paper or metal belongs in the grey bin with a yellow lid. However, only packaging may be placed in the yellow bin. Other waste must not be put in it, even if it is made of the same material. If anything that is not permitted is found in the yellow bin, it will not be emptied by the refuse collection service. Plastic items that are not packaging can be taken to the recycling centre.

Disposal of nappies

Households with a child up to the age of 2 or with an adult suffering from incontinence receive one free bin bag per month from the Main-Tauber District Waste Management Authority. To apply for these bin bags, please complete this application form and, in the case of children, provide a copy of the birth certificate; for adults, provide a medical certificate confirming the incontinence.

Blue bin

You may place paper and cardboard in the blue bin.

Brown bin

You can compost organic kitchen waste, provided you have the facilities to do so. If you do not have these facilities, please dispose of this waste in the brown bin.

Grey residual waste bin

All other waste should be disposed of in the grey residual waste bin.

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With their passports, displaced persons from Ukraine can shop for free at the food bank („Tafel“). There, food is available that has passed its best-before date, but has not yet spoiled and can be eaten. On offer are primarily fresh items donated by food retailers, such as fruit, vegetables and baked goods. Long-life foods such as pasta, rice or canned goods are unfortunately less available there.

The Bad Mergentheimer Tafel is located at Krummen Gasse 20. It is only open on Tuesdays and Fridays from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm.

The Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland has launched a website that lists important information for refugees. You can reach the site at www.germany4ukraine.de. There you can find basic information as well as information about accommodation or medical care.

There is free WLAN in many areas of Bad Mergentheim’s city center, e.g.

• Marktplatz und Tourist-Information
• Burgstraße und Deutschordenplatz
• Schlosshof
• Bahnhofplatz
• Bereich Activ-Center
• Hans-Heinrich-Ehrler-Platz
• Stadtbücherei
• Bereich Sparkasse
• Mittelstandszentrum
• Gänsmarkt
• Freibad Arkau
• Wohnmobilstellplatz
• Volksfestplatz
• Skaterplatz

To use this offer, select „Free WLAN Bad Mergentheim“ in your device. When logging in, you will be asked for an e-mail address. If you have entered an e-mail address and accepted the terms of use, this offer will be activated for you.

There is also a free WLAN offer in the spa gardens (system: free key).

The Freiburg-based language learning app Jicki now offers free online German-Ukrainian and Ukrainian-German language courses. The courses can be used without registration directly on the website as well as in the associated app.

Click here to go directly to the language courses: https://www.jicki.de/deutsch-ukrainisch/

Other free online language courses are available on the vhs learning portal, soon also in Ukrainian.

We assume that the Adult Education Center Bad Mergentheim („Volkshochschule“) will also offer language courses in the future.

Yes. For school lessons, please register your child directly at the relevant school. For elementary school children in grades 1 to 4, the elementary school in the place of residence is responsible. The secondary schools from grade 5 are all in the core city of Bad Mergentheim.

Please register children from grade 5 onwards at the Eduard-Mörike-Gemeinschaftsschule, Maurus-Weber-Str. 48, phone +49 7931 57-4021.

If your child already has sufficient German language skills and an appropriate level of proficiency to follow the lessons, you can also register your child at the Kopernikus-Realschule, Kopernikusstr. 4, phone +49 7931 57-4031 or at the Deutschorden-Gymnasium, Kopernikusstr. 11, phone +49 7931 57-4071.

Unfortunately, there are no more free places in the Bad Mergentheim kindergartens. More children have to wait until a place becomes available again and are first put on a waiting list. On the one hand, there is a lack of the necessary rooms for additional kindergarten places, but more importantly, there is also a lack of staff. We are trying to find a solution for children who came to Bad Mergentheim as war refugees from Ukraine.

If you are ill and need medical assistance, you need a treatment certificate („Behandlungsschein“). You can get one from the Social Welfare Office in the New Town Hall, Bahnhofplatz 1 in 97980 Bad Mergentheim. The costs for medical treatment will be covered if you present this treatment certificate to the doctor. However, it is only valid on the day it was issued.

If it is a medical emergency, the emergency outpatient clinic of the Caritas Hospital, Uhlandstr. 7 in 97980 Bad Mergentheim is responsible. Please report there.

War displaced persons from Ukraine are entitled to benefits according to the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act („Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz“). Please fill out the forms Verkürzter Erstantrag Ukraine, the Vermögenserklärung (declaration of assets), the Zahlungsauftrag (payment order) and, if you have rented a flat, the Mietbescheinigung (rent certificate). You can download and print out these forms. They will also be sent to you by the city of Bad Mergentheim.

The prerequisite for getting money is that you have received a fictitious certificate („Fiktionsbescheinigung“) from the citizens‘ office of the city of Bad Mergentheim and that you have a bank account.

You can either drop the application form in the mailbox of the district office or make an appointment there by calling +49-7931-48276391 and hand it in.