This means that in contrast to many other ski jumping facilities, rather than an artificial tower, the natural gradient of the mountain slope was used for construction.

[1] In 1911, the first ski jumping hill at Neustadt in the Black Forest was built at the Mühlrain.

[citation needed] After World War II, the Ski Club Neustadt developed the idea to build a new large hill together with the ski jumpers Toni Brutscher, Sepp Weiler and Heini Klopfer from Oberstdorf.

A profound conversion of the landing hill and modifications to the take-off were carried out in 1987–88, enlarging the critical point to 113 m.[citation needed] Next to the former 60-meter-hill, the Fritz-Heitzmann-K40 junior hill was reconstructed and covered with plastic mattings in 1993.

Euro were invested in order to modernize Hochfirstschanze as a World Cup-ready K120 ski jump.