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The Millerntor-Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Hamburg St. Pauli, Germany. It is mainly used for football matches and is the home stadium of FC St. Pauli. It is on the ''Heiligengeistfeld'', near the Reeperbahn, the red light district of Hamburg. The stadium had a capacity of 32,000 when it was built in 1961. Sometimes it is used for the American football team of the Hamburg Blue Devils and, although very rarely, for concerts or festivals such as a show by Prince on 31 August 1988, the ''Retter festival'' 2003 or the ''Jubiläumsfestival 100 Jahre FC St.Pauli'' in 2010. ==History== The first sports ground at the Heiligengeistfeld was created after the First World War as a simple flat space. This was the home ground of the ''St. Pauli TV'', together with other workers sports associations (''Arbeitersportkartells''). In 1946, the club (now called ''FC St. Pauli'') built its own stadium partially on the original site of Hamburg Observatory, built in 1802 by Johann Georg Repsold and moved to Bergedorf in 1912. The stadium was located on the Heiligengeistfeld, opposite to the old firestation〔http://www.fcstpauli.com/home/verein/historie/vereinsgeschichte〕 and in the corner between Glacischaussee and Budapester strasse (during 1946 to 1956 named Ernst Thälmann strasse).〔http://www.fcstpauli.com/home/stadion/millerntor/historie〕 In a city laid to ruins by the Second World War, the stadium was made possible only with the help from fans and club members. However, the stadium was not to last long as it had to be removed in 1961. This was due to the IGA (''International Garden exposition)'' 1963 in Hamburg〔http://www.fcstpauli.com/staticsite/staticsite.php?menuid=182&topmenu=113〕 and parts of the park Planten un Blomen was constructed at the site. (The site is today used by the northern entrance of the U Bahn-station St. Pauli.) As a result, the club had to find a new stadium and so in 1961 the construction of the Millerntor-Stadion started. The new stadium opened in 1963, delayed by of an initial lack of drainage system, which made the pitch unplayable after rain. The new stadium held 32,000 spectators, but the capacity was later reduced to 20,629〔http://www.fcstpauli.com/home/stadion/millerntor/fakten〕 for safety reasons. The Millerntor-Stadion has undergone numerous modifications over the years, the biggest change was the construction of a temporary seating area above the Back straight, allowing the promotion into the Bundesliga 1988. This temporary area was in use until May 2012 when the entire Back straight was demolished. In the end of the 1980s, plans for a new stadium, the so-called ''Sport-Dome'' were blocked by supporters of the club and residents. The Sport-Dome would have become a state of the art all-seater stadium that would have combined sport facilities with a shopping mall and a hotel. The fans protested against the commercialization of their stadium〔http://www.11freunde.de/bundesligen/108217?page=3〕 and there were also fears that the Sport-Dome would have led to higher rents in the neighbourhood. In the 1990s, the chairman of the club, the architect Heinz Weisener, made new plans, but they too collapsed, this time due to the financial situation of the club. The question of a new stadium looked like a never-ending story and every chairman has made their own plans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Millerntor-Stadion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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