 This European Archaeological Park is jointly operated by the ' of the French ' of Moselle and the German district of Saarpfalz.The project receives additional funding from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the German state of Saarland, and the municipality of Gersheim.The founder of the European Archaeological Park was the late Jean Schaub (1927–2000), an entrepreneur who used private assets to buy up the first tracts of land belonging to the park, thus protecting them from development and saving the relics of the Roman past for posterity.