Overview
- Cologne city officials reported a World War II bomb found during survey work in Bilderstöckchen, with a 300‑meter safety zone set and about 220 people facing evacuation before a same‑day defusal.
- Nuremberg authorities said specialists defused a roughly 252‑kilogram US aerial bomb discovered during construction in Lichtenreuth, allowing about 370 evacuees to return once road and airspace closures were lifted.
- The Nuremberg operation took about an hour as bomb technicians Christian Scheibinger and Sebastian Rupp removed the front and rear fuzes, reflecting the standard method used by Bavaria’s disposal teams.
- Stuttgart plans a controlled defusal of a British bomb found in the Hospitalwald near Degerloch, with a safety radius of about 600 meters, written notices to roughly 1,000 residents, an early move for a senior home, and a shelter set up in the local hall.
- Officials in these cities describe well‑rehearsed steps for such finds that often surface during building work in Germany, including safety cordons, targeted evacuations, transit updates, and real‑time public briefings.