Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier traveled to the Ahr Valley on Sunday to personally get an impression of the damage caused by the flood and the reconstruction for the first time.
In Ahrweiler, a district of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, he had the damage on both banks shown on a destroyed bridge over the Ahr.
A temporary bridge has now been set up there.
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler - Steinmeier was accompanied by the Deputy Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate and Climate Protection Minister Anne Spiegel (Greens) and Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (SPD).
Following a walk through the historic streets of Ahrweiler, the Federal President was expected in the winegrowing community Mayschoss and in Grafschaft, where he wanted to meet with helpers.
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On September 1, Steinmeier took part in the state ceremony for the victims of the flood disaster.
At that time he said at the Nürburgring that it was not just about emergency aid for reconstruction.
"You need our help and our attention not only now, in the acute emergency, but for a long time."
In Rhineland-Palatinate, 133 people in the particularly affected Ahr valley and one person in the Trier region were killed in the flood after extremely heavy rain on July 14th and 15th.
49 people lost their lives in North Rhine-Westphalia.
There, serious damage was done to the Euskirchen district, the Rhein-Sieg district and parts of the Bergisches Land, among others.
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