The group of asylum seekers, identified as unaccompanied minors, also threw projectiles at the 100 officers sent in to stop the clashes, said Kilz, adding that police had to use pepper spray and batons to separate the groups.
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When the asylum seekers left, they were followed by the group of Germans and even after being separated by police both groups headed towards a shelter, into which the asylum seekers then fled.
About 80 Germans have clashed with a group of 20 asylum seekers in the eastern town of Bautsen.
It is not the first time the town of Bautzen has seen racist incidents and clashes between migrants and right-wing extremists.
Police have reportedly launched an investigation regarding migrants causing bodily harm after throwing glass bottles at the officers, according to Deutsche Welle.
Police told the 32 young asylum seekers who were in the home not to leave the building.
The refugees were eventually chased back to their shelter where police had to guard them through the night.
In a video circulating on social media, the far-right group could be heard chanting “we are the people”. An 18-year-old Moroccan in the building showed cut wounds on his arms but it is not yet clear where those came from, police said.
Young migrants had begun gathering regularly at the flashpoint downtown square called Kornmarkt over the summer.
In February a shelter for asylum seekers was set ablaze in Bautzen, with several spectators applauding and some hindering the work of firemen. For every migrant, there were four neo-Nazis.
The local mayor has condemned the violence.
A few days before that, far-right protesters stopped refugees from getting off a coach in the eastern town of Clausnitz.
Tensions between nationalists and refugees have been reaching worrying levels in Bautzen.
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The following month, President Joachim Gauck was verbally abused when he visited Bautzen to discuss the influx of refugees in Germany.
