 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.United States Army units began moving into the Limburg area in late March 1945, and ground forces captured Limburg Airfield and its facilities about 26 March.