Stadion Hohe Warte

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Probably the most beautiful and most unique football stadium you will ever see.

Geschichte

The Hohe Warte Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Vienna, Austria. It is located on the Hohe Warte hill in Heiligenstadt, a northern suburb in the 19th Viennese district of Döbling. Primarily a football venue and the home of First Vienna FC 1894, it has also occasionally played host to Austrian international rugby union matches and the Vienna Vikings American Football team.

The stadium was opened on 19 June 1921 and was contemporaneously considered the best sporting venue in Austria. The Austrian national football side played numerous matches there in the 1920s and 1930s, attracting the ground's record attendance of 85,000 people when playing Italy in 1923. Around this time the venue also hosted boxing bouts like Georges Carpentier versus Arthur Townley on 1 May 1924 and even open-air opera performances like on 24 July 1924 when an audience of 20,000 attended Aida conducted by Pietro Mascagni. It was also occasionally used as a giant Movie Theater in the years immediately following the Second World War.