Already for a long period of time, the Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg e.V. (NHG), has been active in the region of the municipality Roth with many excavations showing the continuous habitation of the region since Neolithic times. Fritz Loy was active in the NHG and initiated in 1991 the building of a Hallstatt period type dwelling based on a nearby find in Untermainbach (now Schwabach) in Mittelfranken. The original house used to be part of a village like setting.