WWII bombs found and defused in Nuremberg and Bockhorn, Germany

On 3 August 2026 a 112‑kilogram World War II aerial bomb was uncovered at a Siemens Energy site in the Nuremberg Südstadt district. Two bomb‑disposal experts, Sebastian Kraatz and Claudio Lindschun, rendered the device safe after about 45 minutes of work. A 400‑metre evacuation zone forced roughly 800 Siemens employees and 1 200 other workers to leave the area, while more than 110 emergency personnel, fire brigades and police secured the site and closed the airspace over Nuremberg.

A separate incident occurred near the Blauhand wind‑park in Bockhorn, Lower Saxony, where a WWII bomb was discovered on a construction site. Authorities established a 1 000‑metre safety radius, evacuated residents of Bockhorn and neighboring Zetel, and closed the A29 highway as well as rail traffic between Varel and Sande. Local fire brigades, the bomb‑removal service and police coordinated the response, imposing a temporary no‑fly zone over the area.