Up to 600 migrants are expected to seek shelter locally in a former warehouse.
Nearby, around a hundred people formed a counter-rally in support of the new arrivals.
But buses carrying the migrants to the warehouse have also come under fire from bottles and stones and not everybody has made it through to the refuge.
Migrant arrivals are putting an increasing strain on Germany. In the first quarter of 2015 it received 73,000 asylum requests, which represents an increase of 120 percent on the same period last year.
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