[1] Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is a spa town[2] in the German Bundesland of the Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district.
[4] By the early 1890s visiting wealthy spa guests and locals began to play against each other on these courts.
[5] In 1900 in order to promote tennis responsibility for staging events was down to the spa administrators.
[4] In 1912 the spa administration donated a "gold cup" that attracted good players from all over Europe to Neuenahr,[5] known as the Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Gold Cup awarded to winners of the men's singles event in the international tournament.
[1][4] In 1920 the Hockey Tennis Club Bad Neuenahr was opened,[6] with 14 new clay courts and the event transferred there.