Already in the 1930s, the Schiller meadows were used along the Danube as a recreational area. With the end of the Regensburg airfield in the 1960s and the completion of gravel quarrying near the Westheim settlement arose in the wake of the 65-acre Danube Park in its present form with the excavator pond, which is the largest lake in Regensburg with 12 ha. [6] With numerous playgrounds, skating facilities, sports facilities, bays along the Danube, the art-framed Danube Cycle Path and the adjacent Westbad is also called West Park green area today the largest inner city recreational area of Regensburg.