City authorities in Frankfurt plan to evacuate more than 60,000 people from their homes on Sunday to defuse a World War II bomb found during construction work.
The 1.8-tonne bomb of a type dropped by British bombers was unearthed on Tuesday.
City councilor Markus Frank said it contains 1.4 tonnes of explosives.
Frank said a radius of 1.5km around the bomb will have to be evacuated as a precaution ahead of the disposal itself, which is expected to take about four hours.
Officials are describing the planned evacuation as Germany’s biggest yet, though similar operations are still common more than 70 years after the war ended.
In May, for example, around 50,000 people had to leave their homes in Hannover temporarily for a bomb disposal.
Source: Frankfurt to evacuate 60,000 due to bomb
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