 The first breed associations were founded in 1880 in Meisenheim and Quirnbach, later followed in 1898 by the "Glan-Donnersberg Breeding Association" based in Kaiserslautern and in 1912 the revived "Association of the Rhenish Glan Cattle Breeding Cooperatives" (later "Association of the Rhenish Glan Cattle Breeders").In the 1920s they began crossing with Gelbvieh.One decade later they changed the breeding aim