Heiligengeistfeld

Heiligengeistfeld (German: "Holy Ghost Field") is an area of Hamburg in the St. Pauli quarter.

[1] When the area is not used for exhibitions, circuses or the Dom it is a car park.

A building from German Telekom, a swimming complex, Millerntor-Stadion, a school, a patrol station, a World War II building (Flakturm IV) and a supermarket are permanent structures on the field.

With the intensifying Allied bombing of Hamburg the "Flak tower" Flakturm IV structure was erected on Heiligengeistfeld starting in 1942.

The area is noteworthy in music history for being the location where German photographer Astrid Kirchherr first photographed the Beatles in 1960 during their first bookings in Hamburg.