Divers Tuesday recovered four phosphorous bombs, two incendiary bombs and a blast bomb off Friedrichshafen, southwest Germany, after they were exposed by the receding waters of Lake Constance, police said.

Meanwhile the Edersee, Germany's second biggest artificial lake in central Hesse state, has revealed the traces of villages submerged in 1914 when it was formed.

The Edersee, which can hold 202 million cubic metres of water, currently is holding only 84 million and losing a further 1.5 million a day.

A cemetery in one submerged village has already peaked above the waters, a bridge in another now serves as a diving-board for children and officials are expecting a railway line and farms to appear next.

Still, at least it's good news for tourists: "people are coming to see what they don't otherwise get to see," a local tourist official said, including the descendants of families forced to move out to make space for the dam.

Police divers Monday recovered the body of a 61-year-old man missing since 1989 after the Main river in central Germany finally exposed his car.

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