Overview
- Construction crews uncovered a bomb-like object during excavation at the Charlottenstraße and Reinecker Straße intersection in central Chemnitz.
- City officials requested the Dresden explosive ordnance disposal team to examine the find as a suspected piece of wartime ordnance.
- Police sealed the intersection during the assessment and temporarily closed a nearby flower shop and a pizzeria.
- After an expert inspection later that afternoon, authorities gave the all-clear and identified the object as a connector from an old underground cable.
- Local reports noted that a 1,000‑meter safety zone at this site could have displaced roughly 20,000 residents, a risk underscored by a real bomb discovery one year earlier in Altchemnitz that forced about 3,300 people to evacuate.