Stadion Hohe Warte

Stadion Hohe Warte sits in the Heiligenstadt part of Vienna, where the land slopes up on three sides. The shape makes it look like a natural amphitheatre, although safety rules have long stopped people from sitting on the grass banks. The main stand holds 2,350 seats, and a mobile stand opposite it takes 1,100. The pitch is natural grass.

The ground is not defined by a single match, but by the American football team, the Vienna Vikings, who have played there for most of the last thirty years. The capacity of 5,500 is a ghost of the past, when the grass banks held tens of thousands. The record for the football matches held here is often cited as 85,000, a number that makes the current quiet empty seats feel heavy.

The address is Klabundgasse 11, but the stadium has no website of its own; you have to go through the club. The stadium opened in 1921, and the first architect, Eduard Schönecker, designed it for a different century.