Thuringia: Hundreds of apartments in Thuringia evicted

Berlin/Erfurt (dpa/th) - Last year, 855 apartments were evicted in Thuringia.

Thuringia: Hundreds of apartments in Thuringia evicted

Berlin/Erfurt (dpa/th) - Last year, 855 apartments were evicted in Thuringia. This is the result of statistics published by the Ministry of Justice in response to a request from the Left Party in the Bundestag and available to the German Press Agency in Berlin. According to these figures, Thuringia is the eastern German federal state with the fewest forced evictions and ranks third to last among the federal states in an overall German comparison. Nationwide, there were around 29,000 evictions from apartments last year, around 1,000 fewer than in 2020.

The most evictions were in the most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with 8,656, followed by Bavaria (3,432), Saxony (2,667), Lower Saxony (2,285), Hesse (1,915), Baden-Württemberg (1,751), Berlin (1,668) and Saxony -Anhalt (1173). Brandenburg (1104), Rhineland-Palatinate (960), Hamburg (921), Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (873), Thuringia (855), Bremen (455) and Saarland (286) followed. No data were available from Schleswig-Holstein.