This is now a natural preserved area and as laid out as a military training area at the time of World War I.
In the years 1937 to 1945 the terrain was used by the German Wehrmacht; after the end of the war
the French armed forces took over the facility. In the course of the disarmament measures after the end of the Cold War,
the French garrison in Kaiserslautern was dissolved and the training area returned to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1992.
The return of the US areas followed in 1994.