Bomb disposal
The United States Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force attacked the marshalling yards on 25 March and 31 March 1945, heavily damaging the facility. The railroad yards were also attacked by Ninth Air Force B-26 Marauder medium bombers several times during March. In June 2019, an explosion created a crater wide and deep in a cornfield near the village of Ahlbach. Bomb disposal experts believe it was caused by a detonator decomposing on an unexploded AN-M64 General-Purpose Bomb that was mostly likely dropped in the area during the Allied bombing raids in March 1945.