Steigerwaldstadion is a

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Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits ...

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. The stadium is able to hold 18,611 people and was built in 1931. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt. From 1948 to 1991 (the time of the

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), Steigerwaldstadion was known as the Georgij-Dimitroff-Stadion, after

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n communist leader

Georgi Dimitrov Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (; bg, Гео̀рги Димитро̀в Миха̀йлов), also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (russian: Гео́ргий Миха́йлович Дими́тров; 18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian ...

(1882–1949).

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performed at the stadium during their These Days Tour on June 13, 1996 & during their Bounce Tour on May 25, 2003.

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