The Zeitpyramide was conceived by Manfred Laber (a local artist) in June 1993 to mark this 1,200-year period and to give people a sense of what the span of 1,200 years really means.

This time includes the initial block placed at the beginning of the project, which explains the apparent off-by-one error of ten years.

[3] The artwork is intended to take its own path without the artist, directed by the community, and will "make time itself more concrete, more tangible".

[4] Manfred Laber was born in Wemding on 5 May 1932 and studied painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin in the 1950s.

He has other artwork on permanent display on the Isla San Antonio; in Alcanar, Spain; and Mormoiron, France.

The time pyramid is located on a concrete pad on a rounded hilltop, the Robertshöhe, on the northern edge of Wemding.

The project's initial financing was mostly achieved through donations by local companies, which, for example, supplied the materials for the concrete slab for free.