Overview

• Scentral has relocated to its new building on Bismarckstraße, but with the outdoor yard unfinished clients are using temporary pavilions set up in the Herrngarten.
• A petition with more than 1,200 signatures objects to visible drug use along a busy park path used by schoolchildren and reports increased nuisance.
• The city has installed a sight-protection barrier and increased municipal police patrols, and the mayor says state police will show a stronger presence.
• Mayor Hanno Benz criticizes the opening as premature, while Ordnungsdezernent Paul Georg Wandrey announces immediate measures and coalition parties label the current situation unacceptable.
• Operators from the Regionale Diakonie defend the relocation as improving outreach and shifting the scene away from the Rondell, though legal requirements rule out a supervised consumption room at the site.