This place has witnessed history. Michael Jackson had a show here, Uwe Hohn was the first track and field athlete who threw his javelin over 100 metres and almost all Berlin football clubs played at least once a match at Jahnstadion. The 20,000-capacity stadium, however, is only a part of the huge sports ground that is named after the historically debatable Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, who propagated the importance of physical education as a preparation for war in the early 19th century. The park, situated in the formerly East-Berlin district Prenzlauer Berg, features all kinds of fields for football, tennis, volleyball and track and fields, only to name a few. It was constructed on a former drill ground at the end of the 19th century and has since then been – at least temporarily – the home of major Berlin football teams such as Hertha BSC, Union Berlin and GDR-club Vorwärts Berlin. The area is surrounded by Max-Schmeling-Halle, Berlin’s biggest indoor venue for shows, and Mauerpark, a park that is especially busy on Sundays when there is flea market time.