Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Oberhof ya kasance gidan ayyukan wasan motsa jiki tun 1905, galibi bobsleigh. A cikin 1931, an shirya kayan aikin FIBT na farko a gasar cin kofin duniya a wasan bobsleigh na mutum biyu wanda ƙungiyar Hanns Killian da Sebastian Huber ta Jamus suka ci nasara. Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II, an raba Oberhof zuwa Gabashin Jamus. Bayan nasarar da Jamus ta Gabas ta samu a Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya ta FIL a cikin shekarun 1960 tare da Thomas Köhler (ɗan wasan maza na duniya a 1962
da 1967, zakarun duniya na maza biyu a 1965 da 1967, Ilse Geisler (tauraron duniya na mata a 1962 da 1963), Ortrun Enderlein (tauraron duniya na mata a 1965 da 1967), Petra Tierlich (tauraron duniya na mata a 1969, Wolfgang Scheidel (tauraron duniya na maza biyu a 1965), da Klaus Bonsack (tauraron duniya na maza biyu a 1967), gwamnatin Jamus ta Gabas ta yanke shawarar cewa lokaci ya yi da za a gina madaidaiciya, mai sanyaya na wucin gadi mai sanyaya don horo da amfani a duk shekara. A cikin 1966, an ba Jamus ta Gabas kyautar FIL World Luge Championships a Friedrichroda (wanda aka rubuta a matsayin Friedrichsroda), amma an soke taron. Nasarar da aka samu a filin wasan bobsleigh, luge, da skeleton na farko a Königssee, Jamus ta Yamma, da aka kammala a shekara ta 1968 kuma aka fara amfani da shi a gasar tsere ta duniya a shekara ta gaba, ya taimaka. A cikin 1969, an yanke shawarar gina cibiyar dindindin a Oberhof. An kammala waƙa a 1971 tare da gwajin gasar cin kofin duniya da aka yi a shekara mai zuwa. Tun daga wannan lokacin waƙar ta karbi bakuncin wasannin gasar cin kofin duniya, galibi a cikin tsere ko da yake ta karbi bakuncin wasannin bobsleigh (1974 a cikin mutum biyu) da kwarangwal (1993).