Best known as the home ground of football club FC St. Pauli, it is on the Heiligengeistfeld near the Reeperbahn, the red light district of Hamburg.

[6] 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.

This was due to the IGA (International Garden exposition) 1963 in Hamburg[7] and parts of the park Planten un Blomen was constructed at the site.

[8] 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.

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.

Due to some issues caused by mismanagement of the redevelopment project, the building of the new stand on this side of the ground was heavily delayed, and some fans cynically referred to the now empty side of the ground as the "Littman hole", referring to the controversial club chairman Corny Littmann held responsible for the delay.

In addition, the iconic old manually operated scoreboard was, for many fans lamentably, replaced by a more modern new digital display screen.

[10] Two heavy air-dropped bombs from the Second World War, weighing approximately 250-500 kilograms, were found in the middle of the Heiligengeistfeld during the exploratory works.

[10] With a price possibly as high as €21m, "The Wave" would have taken up almost the entire budget for the reconstruction of the Gegengerade, the North stand and the new training facilities combined.

The demolition of the North stand came into full swing after the 2014–15 DFB-Pokal match against Borussia Dortmund at end of October 2014.

This is made with a humoristic reference to the "Chambres Séparées" used by the sex workers at the nearby Red Light District around Reeperbahn.