The structure was built between 1928 and 1929 and inaugurated in 1930, originally as a memorial to the 9,855 soldiers from Nuremberg who died in World War I.

The Nazi Party Rally Grounds were called the area in the southeast of Nuremberg, on which from 1933 ... It was the first larger organ instrument at a party conference in Nuremberg. ... Around the zeppelin field, which had been created in the swampy area near the dozen pond, even with heavy military vehicles during parades

Parade areas of the Nazi party (Reichsparteitagsgelände, in German), in the city of Nuremberg in Germany, comprises a set of buildings used by the Nazi Party at the congresses from 1933 to 1938. The buildings were designed by Albert Speer (except the Hall of Congress, planned by Ludwig Ruff and Franz Ruff)